PERVERSIVE SUBVERSIVE

Many leftists supported pornography because it subverted middle-class morality. Sexually explicit movies brought into the open the most private act that was supposed to occur only in the bedrooms of married couples. Porn equalizes human beings. "Sex strips away identities it takes a lifetime to build," writes John Hubner. "A naked aroused man is not a brain surgeon or a university president or a Methodist bishop. He is an animal with an erection."

 

(excerpt from Ford's A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film)