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The sex police
Tanenbaum, Leora | October 14, 1996 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America," by Laura Kipnis. According to Laura Kipnis, the rejection of pornography is inextricably tied with maintaining social class distinctions, it is a rejection of the vulgar, the trashy, the low. Though not all pornography consumers are "lower class," Kipnis writes in "Bound and Gagged," "insofar as porn is relegated to a low thing culturally, it takes on all the associations of a low-class thing." This is why so many people who hate porn cast porn consumers as too stupid to do anything other than imitate the images before them.

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BOUND & Gagged (Book); BOOKS; KIPNIS, Laura; PORNOGRAPHY; SEX-oriented businesses; FANTASY
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