Sex and Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor

by Marcia Pally

Marcia Pally, a social scientist at New York University, examines the hypothesis that government censorhip of offensive books and images will reduce anti-social behavior, including delinquency,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880013648
• ISBN13: 9780880013642
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Superb treatment of the wrongs of censorship

This is a well written, well researched overview of the question censorship of sexual materials. The radical feminist position, see McKinnon or Dworkin, has turned 180 degrees from the original feminist anti-censorship position.Pally does an excellent job of demolishing the so-called "scientific case" for the harm that explicit sexual images causes.This is a well written response by a feminist to the nonsense that sees the far Left aligned with the far Right to censor what materials adults may see or read.Buy it. Read it. Pass it along. The battle over censorship is an ongoing struggle. I make it about 2500 years so far! Join the battle again the censors with intellectual ammunition of the first order.