Dirty Movies: An Illustrated History of the Stag Film, 1915-1970

"Its always pleasant to see prudery knocked and whenever I read articles bu fellow-intellectuals in defence of pornography I do my best to summon up a cheer. Lately however the heart has gone out of my hurrahs. The old adrenalin glow has waned. And now that Ive analysed a number of recent anti-censorship tracts I think I know why. The writers are cheating. A whiff of evasiveness even of outright hypocrisy clings to their prose: Too much is left unspoken or unadmitted. Their arguments when you look at them closely shift on the quicksands of timidity. On the surface a fearless libertarian has come forth to do battle with the forces of reaction........"