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Special Re-Release: The Great American Pornography Wars

Straight White American Jesus

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The Importance of the Presidency of Richard Richard Nixon in the History of Pornography

In the 1950s, sexuality was used as this kind of metric for a national Christian identity. Nixon's campaign in part included that pornography was bad for society and that he was going to crack down on it. Jerry Falwell and his allies are really naming pornography as one of the, as you say, greatest sins of America alongside homosexuality and abortion.

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