Kinky sex is so popular now...there is this openness about sexual subject that we've never had before -- at the same time they're being condemned. Something like the Meese Commission Report is the perfect example: I masturbated to that report until I just about passed out -- it's the filthiest thing around! And they know it! They made bondage a household word; everybody knows what bondage is now because of the Meese commission -- you read all about it in the papers. The right wing's tactic is to titillate -- show you the thing they want you to get mad about -- thus triggering your shame and guilt feelings but discouraging deeper, contextual analysis....

...While on the one hand we're having attempts at censorship that are ugly and hard to believe, at the same time the list of topics that one cannot discuss seems to be getting smaller.

...The right wing mind-set thinks: if you put a certain image or thought out there, everyone's going to take it one way; that somehow everyone's going to have a single, identical reaction. And that accusation gets put to "pornographers" all the time. If you show a picture of two people fucking -- then ohmigod, the whole social fabric's going to unravel, and people are going to do hideous things to each other!" I really hate that kind of belittling of basic intelligence.