The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature ... Pornography and art are inseparable, because there is voyeurism and voracity in all our sensations as seeing, feeling beings (Paglia, 1990: 35).
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Greek, C.E., Thompson, W. Antipornography campaigns: Saving the family in America and England. Int J Polit Cult Soc 5, 601–616 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01419558
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