![]() ![]() ![]() The sexual utopia they had envisioned was, literally, no place. (And bourgeois politics: it is remarkable how regularly prophets of sexual revolution have fused, or confused, sex and radical politics.)īy the mid-Seventies, though, the prophets were grumbling. Brown, and a thousand lesser gurus foretold the sensual paradise awaiting those who were bold enough to dispense with the repressive trappings of bourgeois morality. It started in naïve abandon-chanting “Down with monogamy, emotional commitment,” etc.-and proceeded quickly through shock, disillusionment, bitterness, and rage. Born in the 1960s, the movement for sexual liberation has followed a predictable trajectory. The latest access of sexual liberation is a case in point. ![]() What was meant to shatter the bonds of convention and establish liberty ends up forging a new set of tyrannous conventions, all the more noxious for being imposed in the name of freedom. Beginning in wholesale rebellion against restraint, it soon sets about erecting its own restraints-often harsher and more irrational than those it intended to replace. The demand for excessive freedom is a curious thing. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified It is crazier. It makes grown men cry and smart people stupid. Speaking about pornography is not like anything else. ![]()
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