Porn Wars with Nona Willis Aronowitz

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.6 • 23K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Here’s some money, go see a Porn War. This week we’re going on a field trip to Times Square with Nona Willis Aronowitz, author of Bad Sex, to learn about Deep Throat, “porno chic,” and the unresolved feminist battle over whether to eradicate pornography or make more of it. Digressions include Carol Clover, this discovery of the clitoris, and Harry Reems (Joel Reems’ distant cousin).

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0:00.0	I think it's true that in American history, like there has never been a correct amount
0:04.0	of sex for women to be having.
0:06.0	It's always the wrong amount.
0:10.1	Welcome to your wrong about, I'm Sarah Marshall.
0:21.8	Today we are learning about the porn wars with no Newellis Aranoids, the author of Bad
0:27.8	Sex.
0:28.8	I'm excited to bring this episode to you because I feel like this is a grand feminist debate
0:35.4	that was never really solved and also kind of a cousin to the satanic panic and you know
0:42.3	I love that whole family.
0:44.6	It's something that makes us think about ethics and free speech and sex and gender and
0:52.1	pleasure and ultimately in this conversation utopianism.
0:57.2	It's also to me a summer story because we're going to take you to Times Square in the
1:02.7	70s and when I think of Times Square in the 70s I imagine feeling very sweaty.
1:07.8	Some of the debates we're talking about in this episode is the grand question of porn.
1:12.7	Does it liberate?
1:14.0	Does it subjugate?
1:15.5	Does it do both at the same time somehow?
1:19.7	And is media depicting the abuse of women the result of an abuse of culture or its cause?
1:26.1	We will try to answer these questions in one hour and we will fail but you'll enjoy
1:30.7	listening to it I think and I'll also get some real time sex education and we are also
1:36.7	going to talk about all kinds of sex the whole time as you might guess.
1:42.4	If you haven't heard we're also going on tour in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and
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