Fat Grants And Sleazy Politics: Reagan's Porn Paranoia
August, 1984
ViewpointWhen the Justice Department handed an $800,000 grant to Dr. Judith Reisman, once a self-styled feminist critic of porn, to study the effects of pornography, it was a sign of bad times to come. Dr. Reisman, who had become a darling of ultraconservatives after charging that the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey was "involved in ... the vicious genital torture of hundreds of children" and claiming that Americans' understanding of sex had to be revamped, was heading out in search of findings...
