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...will the current avalanche of porn change America? Many who oppose censorship now wonder if the mounting taste for porn is a symptom of decay, of corrosive boredom, of withdrawal from social concern for obsessive personal pleasures. Even those who argue that it is not harmful to the user, and that people ought to be free to do what
Hentoff, however, is a First Amendment absolutist. Many would consider censoring a movie if harm could be proved, either to the user, or to the larger society. Though the two main concerns about pornography?its effect on the user, its impingement on the rest of society?often merge, they need to be considered separately...
...first issue, porn's impact on the user, students divide. To many, porn is innocent escapism, a healthy device for fantasizing, a safety valve for dangerous impulses, a useful antidote to Puritan attitudes. Alan Dundes, professor of folklore at Berkeley, argues that it is an informal part of the nation's sex-education program, "the way American culture prepares people for sexuality." To Social Psychologist Douglas Wallace of the University of California Medical Center, porn is needed to bring sexual pleasure to the losers in the sexual game?the shy, the unattractive, the crippled. "Are you," he asks, "to deny...
...describes it as a weight-loss diet whose user can shed up to 5 lbs. a week. Guérard is building on the culinary ideology of la nouvelle cuisine, which began to transform grande cuisine some ten years ago. The high priest of the new way was Paul Bocuse, who brought to French cooking a new emphasis on freshness and simplicity (TIME, April 9, 1973)-and in 1975 received the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing. The orgiastic bouffe-meals that would consume long hours of relentless, if not hoggish stuffing of the gullet...
...cripples the GSD: the last dean's laissez-faire approach left the school in administrative turmoil and on the brink of fiscal disaster; the relatively small GSD is especially vulnerable at Harvard, where each "tub" must stand on its own budgetary "bottom"; and physical designers, quantitative planners, and user-oriented GSD students and faculty have continually disputed the appropriate recipe for a design education. The list goes...