Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography
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| '''''Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography''''' (1980) is a book by [[Laura Lederer]]. | '''''Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography''''' (1980) is a book by [[Laura Lederer]]. | ||
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| - | :"We are in danger of creating and Affectless Society, in which nobody cares for anyone but himself, or for anything but instant self-gratification. We demand sex without love, violence “for kicks”. We are encouraging the blunting of sensibility; and this, let us remember, was not the way to an Earthly Paradise, but the way to Auschwitz. When the Nazis took on the government of Poland, they flooded the Polish bookstalls with pornography. This is a fact. Why did they do so? They did so on the theory that to make the individual conscious only of the need for personal sensation would make the social combination of forces more difficult. The more we withdraw into the shell of self, breeding like [[tape-worm]]s upon self alone, the less likely we are to face the problems that do not directly relate to ourselves. The Nazi scheme was the deliberate use of pornography to the end of social castration. The theory was — and it is worth considering — that if you permit all things for self-gratification, you are likely to encourage withdrawal from any sort of corporate responsibility." | ||
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| - | Muzychenko A.S. «Who is to blame?» and «what is to be done?» (the issue of allpermissiveness | ||
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| - | The article in question considers the issue of all-permissiveness set in a journalistic book “On Iniquity” (1967) written by an English writer of the XX century Pamela Hansford Johnson. The writer’s position is definite and doesn’t leave any doubts in her conviction that there is a social involvement and a direct fault of the society for appearance of such monsters. To Mrs. Johnson’s opinion, all permissiveness in muss media is of the significant factors, destroying the morals and facilitating retrogression of a personality. | ||
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| - | Key words: All-permissiveness, iniquity, social responsibility, personal responsibility, the Theatre of | ||
| - | Cruelty, censorship, involvement. | ||
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"Similarly today the further threat of "Women's Liberation" could be partly responsible for another outpouring of pornography.89 The contemporary proliferation of pornography must also be understood as forming part and parcel of the "commoditization" of sexuality in the capitalistic economy at large. And pornography may serve the interests of capitalism in yet another way. Pamela Hansford Johnson observes: "When the Nazis took on the government of Poland, they flooded the Polish bookstalls with pornography. This is a fact. Why did they do so? They did so on the theory that to make the individual conscious only of the need for personal sensation would make the social combination of forces more difficult."" --On Iniquity by Pamela Hansford Johnson cited in Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography (1980) by Laura Lederer. |
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