Showdown On Sex
October, 1993
Molly Ivins, the Texan columnist who bills herself as a professional provincial, leans on the podium and invokes images of a fire-and-brim-stone preacher indulging in the bully pulpit, a sport in Texas. She is in New York, addressing some 200 delegates to a conference called Sex Panic: Women, Censorship and Pornography, which is sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship. The audience consists of feminist writers, performance artists, First Amendment lawyers, sex workers, academics a...
