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Article Excerpt
America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty. By Marty Klein. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006, 212 pages. Hardcover, $29.95.
Marty Klein answers "no" to the question posed in the title of this review, and he provides many examples of how erotophobes (his word: those who hate or fear sex, especially sexual acts engaged in by other people), including political conservatives, traditionalists, religious folk (lay, pastoral, ecclesiastical), and other rightists, not to mention the government (local and federal), have been conducting their war against sex and sexual freedom as if expelling nerve gas or igniting explosives in crowded urban shopping malls. These violations of an intellectual counterpart of the Geneva Conventions are effectively exposed in Chapter 9, "How They Do It: Ammunition in the War on Sex" (pp. 95-101), although much of Klein's book is similarly concerned with revealing and refuting (as if sniping wooden rabbits with a carnival popgun) the specious reasoning, emotional appeals, misleadingly stated...
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