![]() But before I was much over 18, I had been sexually assaulted three times. This means that I thought I was a human being with rights. Meanwhile, my life as a woman in prefeminist times went on. ![]() This was a fight among men - but about what? Grundy got the blame, women didn't make these laws or enforce them or sit on juries to deliberate guilt or innocence. The court to tell us that through his mighty efforts law had finally vindicated a persecuted genius.Įven at 15 and 16, I noticed something strange about the special intersection of art, law and sex under the obscenity rubric: some men punished other men for producing or publishing writing that caused arousal in (presumably) still other men. "Tropic of Cancer" or "Lady Chatterley's Lover." They always had as a preface or afterword the text of an obscenity decision in which the book was exonerated and art extolled. The books themselves were usually "Ulysses," In any middle-class home one could always find the dirty books - on the highest shelf, climbing toward God, usually behind a parched potted plant. The old Puritans wouldn't like her very much but then, neither does Mr. May 3, 1992, Sunday, Late Edition - FinalĪs a woman determined to destroy the pornography industry, a writer of 10 published books and someone who reads, perhaps I should be the one to tell John Irving (" Pornography and the New Puritans," March 29) who the new Puritan is. Pornography and the New Puritans: Letters From Andrea Dworkin and Others ![]() ![]() The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]()
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