The Politics Of Sex

May, 1984

Last December was abnormally harsh in Minneapolis. One of the century's worst cold snaps was augmented by a chilling union of radical feminists and moral conservatives, who together produced one of the most bizarre legal offspring ever to be born in that normally sensible city. It was an ordinance intended to combat pornography by allowing a woman to file charges against producers and sellers of sexually explicit materials on the grounds that such materials violated her civil rights. With the or...