Praise The Lord And Pass The Popcorn
August, 1987
When the Meese commission issued its findings on the connection between pornography and violence, some of the researchers who had testified before the commission said that their work on pornography had been misinterpreted. Violence, not erotica, they said, causes harm to society. That point became a rallying cry for people who wanted to protect Playboy from the pious anti-pornographers who wanted to keep Debbie Does Dallas out of the clutches of the National Federation for Decency.We should have...