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Yeah, I remember the unholy matrimony of the anti-porn radfems and the anti-porn evangelicals in what was it, the very early eighties? But I don't remember so much younger women being in favour of it, altho I could be wrong (I was a preteen then). I do remember people assuming "feminist" meant antiporn when I got to college, which I thought was Just Fucking Dumb on a number of fronts, including all the VERY RECENT historical examples which at that point included Meese et al going after the Mapplethorpe exhibition, which happened the summer after my freshman year and freaked out anyone who had even heard the term "degenerate art" in Art Hist 101 classes (this was me). Not to mention if you cast even a cursory glance over the history of literary censorship, the people who got it in the neck were queer white men, women and POC. Then you had the younger more critical feminists fighting with the old rads who were anti-porn, period. -- Rambling on here because I was trying really hard to remember, but I honestly don't think I heard liberal people under, say, 25 who were really earnestly saying that kink was perversion and porn was flat out bad and Think Of The Children &c &c. Not unless they were religious or became religious later.

I dunno. I guess the cliche is the children and grandchildren of the people who fought the battle just weren't alive to see what the stakes were, but the Bluest Eye is one of the most challenged books in 2021! That was published the year I was born! The author won the Nobel Prize! It's not like we're living in some post-everything utopia here.