Word: eroticizing
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Perhaps the best hope in dealing with the erotic explosion is that the crassest, most commercial panderers will be curbed by law; beyond this, in legitimate arts and entertainment, a public sense of taste?and humor?will act as the best censor and restore some balance. Gresham's law does...
Part of the widespread resentment against the liberal Warren Court is based on its decision striking down various forms of censorship. The Citizens for Decent Literature, biggest of a number of antismut organizations that have sprung up around the country, has pledged itself to appear on the prosecution side in...
If that proposal were adopted, the stamp should, by rights, appear on an astonishing variety of products. Already, under a new, voluntary rating system, certain films are branded "M" and "suggested for mature audiences." American moviegoers have been peeking at bodies ever since Theda Bara bared her royal nipples in...
The most explicit and protracted depiction of fellatio ever filmed for commercial distribution occurs in an as yet unreleased movie called Coming Apart, starring Rip Torn as a troubled psychiatrist. For all its howling commercial success, I Am Curious (Yellow) by comparison is about as erotic as Das Kapitol. Andy...
Within this erotic panorama, there are obviously immense differences. Surface appearances are deceptive. A play in the politest language can be more obscene in essence than a four-letter-word tirade. A sexual embrace depicted with art can be more innocent than a Botticelli Venus. A fully clad model in...