The Playboy Forum

July, 1974

Demon-Haunted ObjectsI'm tired of the argument advanced by defenders of pornography that each individual has a right to decide for himself what is obscene--as if obscenity were a purely subjective matter. This is utterly false. Hard-core pornography is evil, and to refuse to recognize this is to deny that evil exists. There is such a thing as objective evil. It exists not merely in the minds of the beholders of pornographic pictures and obscene books but in the pictures and books themselves.Will...