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A Hypersexual SocietyRepression and Censorship

A Hypersexual Society: Repression and Censorship [John Ashcroft served as U.S. Attorney General from 2001 until 2005. As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Ashcroft had primary responsibility for fighting crime, cracking down on corporate wrongdoing, and guarding the nation against potential terrorists. The last of these was a particularly important responsibility after September 11, 2001. With all of these awesome duties, Ashcroft still found time during his tenure to take care of one more important task: ordering that two larger-than-lifesize bronze statues in the Department of Justice building be hidden behind draperies. Why? The official press release stated that the statues created a distraction when Ashcroft stood in front of them while holding news conferences. And why were the statues so distracting? News reporters and political columnists suspected that the distraction was that one of the statues was of a bare-breasted woman, which Ashcroft, a self-proclaimed Christian fundamentalist, might have found offensive. Nudity, especially female nudity, is often objectionable to fundamentalist Christians.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Hypersexual SocietyRepression and Censorship

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
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978-1-349-37591-2
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41 –63
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10.1057/9780230616608_3
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[John Ashcroft served as U.S. Attorney General from 2001 until 2005. As the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Ashcroft had primary responsibility for fighting crime, cracking down on corporate wrongdoing, and guarding the nation against potential terrorists. The last of these was a particularly important responsibility after September 11, 2001. With all of these awesome duties, Ashcroft still found time during his tenure to take care of one more important task: ordering that two larger-than-lifesize bronze statues in the Department of Justice building be hidden behind draperies. Why? The official press release stated that the statues created a distraction when Ashcroft stood in front of them while holding news conferences. And why were the statues so distracting? News reporters and political columnists suspected that the distraction was that one of the statues was of a bare-breasted woman, which Ashcroft, a self-proclaimed Christian fundamentalist, might have found offensive. Nudity, especially female nudity, is often objectionable to fundamentalist Christians.]

Published: Nov 7, 2015

Keywords: Federal Communication Commission; Sexual Object; Sexual Material; Explicit Material; Pornographic Material

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