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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: "Liberated" Sex

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 10:32 AM ET

The other great irony is that pornography and prostitution have increased to unprecedented levels. Yet we're both old enough to remember when everyone thought that these things were the products of Victorian repression and would fade away in the cleansing sunlight of sexual freedom.

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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: "Liberated" Sex

Posted Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1999, at 10:32 AM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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