On Censorship
August, 1986
On March 14, 1986, The Association of American Publishers sent four letters to the members of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. John Updike, William Kennedy, Susan Isaacs and John Irving offered their testimony on the effects of censorship. What follows is excerpted from those letters.•I think that the relative sexual openness of recent times, including the public sale of magazines and books that many consider reprehensible, has made my fellow Americans more tolerant and genial,...
