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America's War
On Sex Packs Political
Punch
“If you’re uncomfortable
about blacks, you’re a racist; uncomfortable about Jews,
you’re anti-Semitic. But today, if you’re uncomfortable
about sex, you’re a civic leader.”
That’s Marty Klein at his
finest—brutally honest, scathingly funny. The quote is from
his new book, America's War On Sex, published this week
by Praeger. With a foreword by the President of the ACLU, the
book shows how the government and Religious Right are using the
regulation of sexual _expression, entertainment, commerce,
information, and health care to undermine our secular democracy.
Long-time sex activist Susie
Bright says, “Marty takes apart American sex panics with
surgical precision.” She might be referring to Marty’s
concept of the Sexual Disaster Industry. He shows how today’s
public policies attempt to solve the wrong sexual
“problems”—guaranteeing more of the real sexual
problems with which American individuals and communities
continue to struggle. These struggles then drive the demand for
more repressive “solutions” which, of course, don’t work
either.
“Although every Alabaman has a
fundamental right to own a gun, they don't have the same right
to own a dildo,” notes the book. Marty Klein has been an
expert witness or defendant in many state and federal censorship
cases, and his experience shows. He untangles many myths about
“obscenity,” victimless crime, and the Right’s newest
scary monster, “activist judges.” Reading this book will arm
you to demolish many such popular sex-negative arguments.
The book features a short
appendix, which is all Woodhull. It features the Declaration for
Human Rights Day that Marty wrote for our website last year. He
has also donated some of his royalties from the book to
Woodhull. This is truly the book on challenges to sexual
freedom today. The Woodhull Foundation is proud to be affiliated
with the author and the book, and we encourage everyone to
purchase and read it. You can find more information about it at www.AmericasWarOnSex.com.
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