Pornography and the New Puritans John Irving, in his article “Pornography and the New Puritans,” begins by telling us that “These are censorial times.” The censorial times being removing anything that is considered to be obscene. He refers to the pornography victims’ of sexual crimes exposed to obscene material, which is pornography, can bring civil suits against publishers and distributors that expose these obscene materials. Irving predicts that if the bill is passed than it will be the first bill to give “credence to the unproven theory that sexually explicit material actually causes sexual crimes.” Irving mentions that he is “pretty sure” that rape ....

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