Did Pornography Fuel the Sexual Revolution? - Jeffrey Escoffier

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/15/Porn_Peep_Shows_and_Public_Space

GLBTQ issue writer Jeffrey Escoffier says that pornography should be taken more seriously as an element of pop culture, calling it "the most important form of discourse about sex and sexuality that currently exists." He argues that the sexual revolution of the 1960s would not have occurred without the battle over obscenity.

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Porn, Peep Shows and Private Space: a discussion recorded in collaboration with the City University of New York, on December 15, 2009.

What is the relationship between public and private within evolving urban and commercial environments such as Times Square in New York City? How have changes in technology and regulation affected sexual commerce, cruising and other public and private negotiations? - CUNY

Jeffrey Escoffier writes on glbtq history, politics, culture, sexuality, music, and dance. One of the founders of OUT/LOOK: National Lesbian and Gay Quarterly, he has published widely. Among his books are American Homo: Community and Perversity and a biography of John Maynard Keynes in the Chelsea House series on the Lives of Notable Gay Men and Lesbians. He co-edited (with Matthew Lore) Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration.

His most recent book is Sexual Revolution, an anthology of writing on sex from the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently working on a book on sexual politics and writing about the production of pornography.

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[Aaberg123]

@ScientiaVeritasEtLux

I think H.L. Mencken said it best: "Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

[NeedsEvidence]

Fora TV - The world is fucking.

[Mrjaguarpaw1]

I WOULD SHOOT THIS JEFFREY BITCH AS A DOG...BITCH PROMOTES DIRT TO SOCIETY

[DarkprinX2500]

this man is evil...

[165165412]

@GrifterUno Get with the program?? I hope you get AIDS or other sexual diseases.

[165165412]

And I dont even want to get started on prostitution and sexual diseases especially the fatal ones like AIDS.

[165165412]

@KumarZimmerman08 Animal beings intercourse like there is no tomorrow and with no real direction, just to do it pleasure. This revolution break family bond, destroyed commitment, destroyed marriage and created a lost generation. We are not animal beings for hell sake.

[165165412]

@KumarZimmerman08 And I totally agreed with you, I have been demonized, ostracized, condemned for opposing sluttish bastardised fetish perverted behavior and lifestyle. Nothing against sexual activity of course but Sex was meant for reproductive purposes, to breed another generation and create new family. Sexual revolution has demeaned human beings and degraded human beings to the level of animal beings and what animals do?

[GrifterUno]

Get off your high horses all of you...Stop acting like this is the 1800's and get with the program, or move to the mountains and live a hermit life; it's your choice but don't act like 'cause you don't like sex or anything related to it, that you are right for some inexplicable reason...it's still a choice, it will always be.

[KumarZimmerman08]

The "sexual revolution" in the 1960s led to casual sex, pregnant teens, unwed mothers and fathers of all ages, singles bars, one-night stands, teen sex, group sex, swingers, divorces, open marriages, cohabitation, incest, pornography, sexual abuse, rape, AIDS, abortions, STDS, and alternate sexual preferences. Traditional sexual morality was breaking down. and you think this is good?

[mrtundra45]

PORN = JEWS