1970s
Make love, not war
1970: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull
He spoke of very simple things — that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
“Set aside,” came a voice from the multitude, “even if it be the Law of the Flock?”
“The only true law is that which leads to freedom,” Jonathan said. “There is no other.”
1970: Human Sexual Inadequacy by Masters and Johnson. Huge promotion, M+J become household names.
Goal was to develop alternative to psychoanalysis, considered to be a fraud.
Mostly taught physical techniques and training to treat premature ejaculation, impotence, and frigidity. No discussion of unconcious
At first M+J supplied surrogate sex partners for individual patients, but after being sued by the husband of a surrogate they treated only couples.
Developed into marriage counselling
1970: The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (age 31) became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Two of the book’s themes already pointed the way to Sex and Destiny 14 years later, namely that the nuclear family is a bad environment for women and for the raising of children, and that the manufacture of women’s sexuality by Western society is demeaning and confining. Girls are feminised from childhood by being taught rules that subjugate them. Later, when women embrace the stereotypical version of adult femininity, they develop a sense of shame about their own bodies, and lose their natural and political autonomy. The result is powerlessness, isolation, a diminished sexuality, and a lack of joy.[121] “Like beasts”, she told the New York Times in March 1971, “who are castrated in farming in order to serve their master’s ulterior motives—to be fattened or made docile—women have been cut off from their capacity for action.”[106]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/02/thats-patriarchy-how-female-sexual-liberation-led-to-male-sexual-entitlement
The right for women to escape the passive sexual role obliged of them by culture – the imperative to do so in the cause of women’s liberation – is at the heart of Greer’s demands in her 1970 manifesto,
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/germaine-greer
Inspired by Sydney University professor of philosophy John Anderson. In 1968 in London she married Australian journalist Paul du Feu, a union which ended in divorce in 1973.
1970: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett (age 36) one of the first writers to describe the modern concept of patriarchy as the society-wide subjugation of women. … argued that sex-based oppression was both political and cultural,[27] and posited that undoing the traditional family was the key to true sexual revolution .[28][29] … considered to be the movement’s manifesto. New edition republished in 2016.
Sex roles are a socially constructed artifact of culture, not biological / natural. Root of current debates about masculinity.
Millet was married to a male Japanese sculptor from 1965-85, but came out as lesbian in 1970.
In an interview with Mark Blasius, Millett was sympathetic to the concept of intergenerational sex, describing age of consent laws as “very oppressive” to gay male youth in particular but repeatedly reminding the interviewer that the question cannot rest on the sexual access of older men or women to children but a rethinking of children’s rights broadly understood.[39] Millett added that “one of children’s essential rights is to express themselves sexually, probably primarily with each other but with adults as well” and that “the sexual freedom of children is an important part of a sexual revolution … if you don’t change the social condition of children you still have an inescapable inequality”.[39] In this interview, Millett criticized those who wished to abolish age of consent laws, saying the issue was not focused on children’s rights but “being approached as the right of men to have sex with kids below the age of consent” and added that “no mention is made of relationships between women and girls”.[39]
“All the best scientific evidence today unmistakably tends towards the conclusion that a female possesses, biologically and inherently, a far greater capacity for sexuality than the male.” Pg 116 Sexual Politics
1970: Sisterhood is Powerful by Robin Morgan (age 29) a feminist poet and founding member of New York Radical Women.[1] It was one of the first widely available anthologies of second-wave feminism. It was both a consciousness-raising analysis and a call-to-action.[2] The collection addressed several major issues including “the need for radical feminism, the discrimination women experienced from men in the political left, and the blatant sexism faced in the workplace.”[3]
1970: The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone (age 25)
“We must include the oppression of children in any program for feminist revolution or we will be subject to the same filing we have so often accused men: of not going deep enough in our analysis, of having missed an important substratum of oppression merely because it didn’t directly concern us” https://www.jstor.org/stable/3809951
Incorporated Marcuse’s ideas.
1970: The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm by Anne Koedt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Vaginal_Orgasm
1971: The Little Red School-Book was written by two Danish schoolteachers, Soren Hansen and Jesper Jenson. It has been described as ‘essentially a manual for kids on how to challenge the authority of the school system’. It devoted twenty of its two hundred pages to sex and thirty to drugs, including alcohol and tobacco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Schoolbook
1972: The Sexual Radicals by Paul Robinson – study of Reich, Marcuse and Geza Roheim, who are all convinced of the unparalleled significance of sex, both in individual psychology and in the evolution of civilisation.
1972: Shrew December, vol.4 no.6 – UK Women’s Lib newsletter front page article:
“The suppressed Power of Female Sexuality
Women have a capacity for sexuality far in excess of men. But thousands of years of patriarchal conditioning has robbed us of our potential and deceived us about the true nature of our sexuality. Women are forbidden to own and use their sexuality for themselves, as a means of personal self-expression. Our authentic sexuality has been taken from us, subjected to a process of distortion and mutilation, and then returned to us as a passive submissiveness which is held up as ‘true’ female sexuality.”
1972: Helen Reddy’s feel-good feminist anthem “I Am Woman” topped the charts and won a Grammy. “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar,”
1972: collapse of the SUCK collective [ Dworkin, Greer et al ]
1972: USA Election McGovern vs Nixon. Last national election before the sexual counter-revolution 61% of white evangelicals voted – 28% less than whites overall [Delerium] Cohen uncovers the hidden history of an orchestrated, well-financed, ideologically powered shadow movement to turn back the clock on matters of gender equality and sexual freedom and how it has played a leading role in fueling America’s political wars. Delirium tells the story of this shadow movement and how we can restore common sense and sanity in our nation’s politics.
Washington Post article quoted an unnamed Democrat senator claiming that presidential candidate “McGovern is for amnesty, abortion, and the legalization of pot.” His Democrat rival Humphrey placed subsequently adverts in Catholic newspapers repeating this, and McGovern was branded as a “radical”, due to his association with feminism and gay rights.
1972: Ms. Foundation formed by Gloria Steinham, etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Foundation_for_Women
http://www.bu.edu/wgs/files/2013/10/Hanisch-Telltale-Words-Depoliticizing-the-Womens-Liberation-Movement.pdf
” Foundation money has played a huge part in defanging radical feminism. Big foundations fund smaller foundations. For example, the Ford, Rockefeller and other large foundations fund the Ms. Foundation or the Feminist Majority Foundation, which in turn distributes the funds to groups that follow their liberal line that doesn’t really threaten the one per cent. Corporate funding from such financial giants as Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America also have had their fingers in the feminist pie.”
1973 Fear of Flying is a novel by Erica Jong which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured in the development of second-wave feminism. .
1973: Our Bodies, Ourselves Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
The book was revolutionary in that it encouraged women to celebrate their sexuality, including chapters on reproductive rights, lesbian sexuality, and sexual independence.[1] The move towards women’s active engagement with their actual sexual desires was contradicting the popular gendered myth of [2] “women as docile, and passive,” and “men as active and aggressive” in a sexual relationship.
1973: Homosexuality removed from DSM
1974: Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) British group campaigned for the abolition of the age of consent until 1984. In 1981, the former PIE Chair Tom O’Carroll was convicted on the conspiracy charge and sentenced to two years in prison. Several other prominent members were convicted over the next few years. PIE was affiliated with the National Council for Civil Liberties until they were expelled in 1983. Organisation theoretically catered to women although only rumors, Hetero men attracted to girls were also rare.
Quoted in Anticlimax:
Paedophile Information Exchange PIE former chairperson Keith Hose, interviewed in radical left journal Leveller
“Paedophilia is only condemned because it threatens some of the basic institutions of capitalism, such as the nuclear family.”
https://notes.motuweb.com/tag/pie/
1975: Le Grand Bazar by Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit a French-German politician. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France[1] [In the book] he described himself as engaging in sexual activities with very young children at the kindergarten. In 1978, an edition of Pflasterstrand, an alternative magazine Cohn-Bendit edited, described being seduced by a 6-year-old girl as one of the most beautiful experiences the author had ever had.[5]
1976: The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault exploring what Foucault called the “repressive hypothesis”. It revolved largely around the concept of power, rejecting both Marxist and Freudian theory.
challenged the validity of the idea of “sexual repression”.
In the early 1950s, Foucault came under the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who remained a core influence on his work throughout his life.
Foucault argues that westerners still view power as emanating from law, but he rejects this, proclaiming that we must “…construct an analytics of power that no longer takes law as a model and a code,” and announcing that a different form of power governs sexuality. “We must,” Foucault states, “at the same time conceive of sex without the law, and power without the king.”[6]
Foucault criticizes Wilhelm Reich, writing that while an important “historico-political” critique of sexual repression formed around Reich, “the very possibility of its success was tied to the fact that it always unfolded within the deployment of sexuality, and not outside or against it.” According to Foucault, that sexual behavior in western societies was able to change in many ways “without any of the promises or political conditions predicted by Reich being realized” demonstrates that the “antirepressive” struggle is “a tactical shift and reversal in the great deployment of sexuality.”[7]
The philosopher Alan Soble wrote in the Journal of Sex Research that The History of Sexuality “caused a thunderstorm among philosophers, historians, and other theorists of sex”. He credited Foucault with inspiring “genealogical” studies “informed by the heuristic idea that not only are patterns of sexual desire and behavior socially engineered … but also that the concepts of our sexual discourse are equally socially constructed” and with influencing “gender studies, feminism, Queer Theory, and the debate about the resemblance and continuity, or lack of it, between ancient and contemporary homoeroticism”. He credited Simone de Beauvoir with anticipating Foucault’s view that patterns of sexual desire and behavior are socially determined.[18]
The philosopher José Guilherme Merquior suggested in Foucault (1985) that Foucault’s views about sexual repression are preferable to those of Reich, Herbert Marcuse, and their followers in that they provide more accurate descriptions
The philosopher Roger Scruton rejected Foucault’s claim that sexual morality is culturally relative in Sexual Desire (1986) – which he later said was an answer to Foucault’s work.[42]. He also criticized Foucault for assuming that there could be societies in which a “problematisation” of the sexual did not occur.
The classicist David M. Halperin claimed in One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990) that the appearance of the English translation of the first volume of Foucault’s work in 1978, together with the publication of Dover’s Greek Homosexuality the same year, marked the beginning of a new era in the study of the history of sexuality.[29] He suggested that The History of Sexuality may be the most important contribution to the history of western morality since Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality (1887).[30]
The critic Camille Paglia rejected Halperin’s views, calling The History of Sexuality a “disaster”. Paglia wrote that much of The History of Sexuality is fantasy unsupported by the historical record, and that it “is acknowledged even by Foucault’s admirers to be his weakest work”.[31]
Porter credited Foucault with discrediting the view, proposed for example by Marcuse in Eros and Civilization (1955), that “industrialization demanded erotic austerity.”[37]
1976: The Hite Report on Female Sexuality Shere Hite’s work concluded that 70% of women do not have orgasms through in-out, thrusting intercourse but are able to achieve orgasm easily by masturbation or other direct clitoral stimulation.[6][7][8]
She claimed that 98% of women were dissatisfied with their male partners, but a poll 10 years later showed 93% said their relationships were good or excellent.
Methodologically poor, data not representative (same as Kinsey) – textbook case of junk science (Mona Charon)
1977: The Tao of love and sex – the ancient Chinese way to ecstasy by Jolan Chang
https://www.scribd.com/doc/241554214/Jolan-Chang-The-Tao-of-Love-and-Sex
Only other book beside Tao Te Ching to survive Mongol rule in 13th century – written in Han Dynasty around 200 BC
Taoist teachings about the role of sexual love as a therapeutic agent for all healing. Connected to love was was a cosmic force.
The male belongs to Yang
Yang’s peculiarity is that he is easily aroused.
But also he easily retreats.
The female belongs to Yin.
Yin’s peculiarity is that she is slow to be aroused.
But also slow to be satisfied.
– Taoist master Wu Hsien
Also: https://michaelboxall.com/city-of-bachelors/ To compensate for the disparity Taoist teachers developed techniques which enabled both partners to attain satisfaction and thus keep yin and yang in balance. For the male, the more sex he had, and the more different partners, the better.
1977: Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Simone de Beauvoir and dozens of other French intellectuals lobbied the French government to abolish age of consent laws and to decriminalise ‘consensual sex’ between adults and minors under the age of fifteen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of_consent_laws
The Danger of Child Sexuality, Foucault’s dialogue with Guy Hocquenghem and Jean Danet, was produced by Roger Pillaudin and broadcast by France Culture on April 4, 1978. https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/foucaultdangerchildsexuality_0.pdf
“It could be that the child, with his own sexuality, may have desired that adult, he may even have consented, he may even have made the first moves. We may even agree that it was he who seduced the adult; but we specialists with our psychological knowledge know perfectly well that even the seducing child runs a risk, in every case, of being damaged and traumatized by the fact that he or she has had sexual dealings with an adult. Consequently, the child must be ‘protected from his own desires’, even when his desires turn him towards an adult. The psychiatrist is the one who will be able to say: I can predict that a trauma of this importance will occurred as a result of this or that type of sexual relation. It is therefore within the new legislative framework – basically intended to protect certain vulnerable sections of the population with the establishment of a new medical power – that a conception of sexuality and above all of the relations between child and adult sexuality will be based; and it is one that is extremely questionable.”
Guy Hocquenghem:
“But todays overall tendency is indisputably not only to fabricate a type of crime that is quite simply the erotic or sensual relationship between a child and an adult, but also, since this may be isolated in the form of a crime, to create a certain category of the population defined by the fact that it tends to indulge in those pleasures. There exists then a particular category of the pervert, in the strict sense, of monsters whose aim in life is to practice sex with children. Indeed they become perverts and intolerable monsters since the crime as such is recognized and constituted, and now strengthened by the whole psychoanalytical and sociological arsenal. What we are doing is constructing an entirely new type of criminal, a criminal so inconceivably horrible that his crime goes beyond any explanation, any victim.”
Michel Foucault:
“We’re going to have a society of dangers, with, on the one side, those who are in danger, and on the other, those who are dangerous. And sexuality will no longer be a kind of behavior hedged in by precise prohibitions, but a kind of roaming danger, a sort of omnipresent phantom, a phantom that will be played out between men and women, children and adults, and possibly between adults themselves, etc. Sexuality will become a threat in all social relations, in all relations between members of different age groups, in all relations between individuals. It is on this shadow, this phantom, this fear that the authorities would try to get a grip through an apparently generous and, at least general, legislation and through a series of particular interventions that would probably be made by the legal institutions, with the support of the medical institutions.”
1979: North American Man Boy Love Association formed
Danial Tsang edited collection of articles.
COUNTERREVOLUTUON
1971: Andrea Dworkin separates from husband Cornelius (Iwan) Dirk de Bruin in Amsterdam, claiming violent abuse
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Ricki Abrams introduced Dworkin to early radical feminist writing from the United States, and Dworkin was notably inspired by Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics (1970), Shulamith Firestone’s The Dialectic of Sex (1970), and Robin Morgan’s Sisterhood is Powerful (1970).[24] She and Abrams began to work together on “early pieces and fragments” of a radical feminist text on the hatred of women in culture and history,[25] including a completed draft of a chapter on the pornographic counterculture magazine Suck, which was published by a group of fellow expatriates in the Netherlands.[26]
1973: Lesbian Nation by Jill Johnston
“Feminism at heart is a massive complaint. Lesbianism is the solution…Until all women are lesbians there will be no true political revolution…Feminist who still sleep with the man are delivering their most vital energies to the oppressor.”
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Oil Crisis
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1974: Jan 31 Nixon signs Child Abuse and Treatment Act. includes $86 million for research
quoted in Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions edited by Jay Feierman (1990): https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=nnKEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69
[ interesting book but ebook is $148.00! ]
1974: Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin (PDF in files)
The book’s final section discusses the concept of androgyny within various cultures’ creation myths and argues for “the development of a new kind of human being and a new kind of human community” free from gender and gendered roles.
1974: Feminist leader Robin Morgan made the controversial claim that: “Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice.”
This began the on-going feminist sex wars which split the women’s movement between anti-pornography campaigners (who were often man-hating lesbians), and the sex-positive feminists who knew this was nonsense.
Breeders sleeping with the enemy
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault
Evidence Mounts: More Porn, LESS Sexual Assault – Those who claim that porn incites rape are mistaken. (2016)
1975: Against Our Will: Men Women and Rape – Susan Brownmiller
Quote from Make Love Not War by David Allyn::
Increasingly, she and other feminists saw sexual danger as the most pressing issue of the day. They weren’t neo-puritans, espousing “sexual repression”; rather, they felt that the battle for sexual pleasure had largely been won, while the war against sexual violence had yet to begin.
Increasingly concerned about regulating sexual expression rather than liberating it, radical feminists organised to combat pornography, operating on the premise that pornography demeaned women and inspired men to rape.
1975: In October, The New York Post published a story about the production of snuff movies, in which the actress is actually killed during filming (ie: a human sacrifice). A few years earlier, a book titled The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion had speculated that Manson had been making this type of porn at the time of the 1969 Sharon Tate murders.
There is no evidence that any of these movies really existed, but spotting an opportunity, film distributor Allan Shackleton quickly renamed a low budget horror film that had never been released because it was so bad. Advertising for his movie Snuff falsely suggested that it had been made in South America, and fake news reports suggested that concerned citizens were organising a crusade to shut it down. Shackleton even hired protesters to picket theaters. A moral panic ensued, and the movie sold lots of tickets.
1976: Andrea Dworkin organized demonstrations against the film Snuff in New York
1976: Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM) formed in San Francisco, following a conference on violence against women . Early members included Susan Griffin, Kathleen Barry, and Laura Lederer. WAVPM organised the first national conference on pornography in San Francisco in November 1978 which included the first Take Back the Night march.
1977: Lois Gould article in the New York Times, proposing alignment with the religious right to fight porn.
At first Andrea Dworkin objected, calling the idea “pernicious” and a “compromise with a totalitarian ideology”, but by 1978 she had joined up with Women Against Pornography.
Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon wanted civil laws restricting pornography and to this end drafted the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance, Susan Brownmiller, and Robin Morgan. One of the major influences of anti-pornography feminism was its predecessor, lesbian feminism
1977: Quote from Make Love Not War by David Allyn:
“To the dismay of other liberals, the organisers of Women Against Pornography were so intent on fighting sexual “filth” that they were willing to work with the leaders of the Religious Right to do so.”
1978: In the summer of 1978, Laura Lederer brought on Lynn Campbell to help organize Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM) and together they helped organize Feminist Perspectives on Pornography, the first national anti-pornography feminist conference held in San Francisco on November 17–19, 1978. The conference drew many well known feminist speakers, notably Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, Phyllis Chesler, Kathleen Barry, Susan Brownmiller and Andrea Dworkin. This conference was significant in that it served as a galvanizing event for the anti-pornography feminist movement in the United States. The final event of the conference was the first Take Back the Night march, which converged on the Broadway red light district.[20]
1978: The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) was formed https://nambla.org/
NAMBLA’s goal is to end the extreme oppression of men and boys in mutually consensual relationships by:
building understanding and support for such relationships;
educating the general public on the benevolent nature of man/boy love;
cooperating with lesbian, gay, feminist, and other liberation movements;
supporting the liberation of persons of all ages from sexual prejudice and oppression.
NAMBLA is strongly opposed to age-of-consent laws
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Camille Paglia supported NAMBLA back in the day.
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Moral panic causes were found in a rise of five factors in the years leading up to the 1980s:
the establishment of fundamentalist Christianity and political organization of the Moral Majority;
the rise of the anti-cult movement which spread ideas of abusive cults kidnapping and brainwashing children and teens;
the appearance of the Church of Satan and other explicitly Satanist groups that added a kernel of truth to the existence of Satanic cults;
the development of the social work or child protection field, and its struggle to have child sexual abuse recognized as a social problem and a serious crime;
the popularization of posttraumatic stress disorder, repressed memory, and corresponding survivor movement.[11]
Satanic ritual abuse brought together several groups normally unlikely to associate, including psychotherapists, self-help groups, religious fundamentalists and law enforcement.[46] Psychotherapists who were actively Christian advocated for the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID);
1979: after extensive consultations with new right leaders like Viguerie, Falwell founded the Moral Majority. Though religious conservative groups had existed for decades, the Moral Majority marked the religious right’s official entrance into interest-group politics.
1980s
1980:
Reagan elected
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https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/pornPR27.html
The Meese Commission not only borrowed rhetoric from the anti-porn feminists—it owes them a greater debt. Without them it might not have existed. In 1980 feminist Judith Bat-Ada had called for a coalition across political and class lines:
“A coalition of all women needs to be established, regardless of race, color, creed, religion or political persuasion…. Women have been divided; we must reunite throughout the nation on this one basic issue…. Disagreements on other issues can be dealt with when fewer of us are being murdered, beaten, tortured, and raped.” (In the collection Take Back the Night, edited by Laura Lederer.)
The far right was enthusiastic about such a bloc. For example, North Carolina State Representative Coy Privette, a director of the anti-liquor and anti-pornography Christian Action League, commented, “When you’ve got this kind of coalition, that is a politician’s dream.” (Off Our Backs, June 1985.)
1980: Analysis Terminable by Frederick Crews reprinted in his collection Skeptical Engagements in 1986
Crews rejected Freudian psychoanalysis entirely, citing what he considered its faulty methodology, its ineffectiveness as therapy, and the harm it caused to patients.[25]
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Crews sees his criticisms of Freud as two-pronged – one aimed at Freud’s ethical and scientific standards, and the other aimed at showing that psychoanalysis is a pseudoscience.[34][35 This article and “The Unknown Freud,” published in 1993, have been described as shots fired at the beginning of the “Freud Wars,” a long-running debate over Freud’s reputation, work and impact.[36][37]
published The Memory Wars (1995).[44] Crews believes the “memories” of childhood seduction Freud reported were not real memories but constructs that Freud created and forced upon his patients. According to Crews, the seduction theory that Freud abandoned in the late 1890s acted as a precedent and contributing factor to the wave of false allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s.[45]
1980: Nymphomania, along with oral sex, masturbation and homosexuality, was removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
1980: Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder – start of moral panic about Satanism and sexual abuse
1980: A motion at the 1980 [German] Green Party conference sought to “liberalise sex between children and adults”. After the successful campaign to decriminalise homosexual activity between adults, a “pro-paedophile” group called for the abolition of laws prohibiting sex with minors. That debate eventually fell by the wayside and Cohn-Bendit, along with other 68ers, now describes the child sexual revolution as a step too far.
“We didn’t draw clear lines,” he admitted to Die Zeitnewspaper. “To grant children and young people a route to develop their own sexuality was and is correct. That adults force their kind of sexuality on children – even if it has a libertarian hue – turns emancipation on its head.”
1980: Paedophilia: The Radical Case by Tom O’Carroll
1980: In an interview with Mark Blasius, Kate Millett was sympathetic to the concept of intergenerational sex, describing age of consent laws as “very oppressive” to gay male youth in particular but repeatedly reminding the interviewer that the question cannot rest on the sexual access of older men or women to children but a rethinking of children’s rights broadly understood.[39] Millett added that “one of children’s essential rights is to express themselves sexually, probably primarily with each other but with adults as well” and that “the sexual freedom of children is an important part of a sexual revolution … if you don’t change the social condition of children you still have an inescapable inequality”.[39] In this interview, Millett criticized those who wished to abolish age of consent laws, saying the issue was not focused on children’s rights but “being approached as the right of men to have sex with kids below the age of consent” and added that “no mention is made of relationships between women and girls”.[39]
Sexual Revolution and the Liberation of Children: https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/interv_kate_m.htm
1981 Pornography: Men Possessing Women, Andrea Dworkin argued that the theme of pornography is male dominance and as a result it is intrinsically harmful to women and their well-being
AIDS
The AIDS epidemic officially began on June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported unusual clusters of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in five homosexual men in Los Angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS
Various experiments have shown that we become more conformist and respectful of convention when we feel the threat of a disease… Apparently any signs of free thinking – even invention and innovation – become less valued when there is the risk of contagion…. [another] study, a reminder to wash their hands led participants to be more judgemental of unconventional sexual behaviours.
1982: Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution by Ellen Willis in Social Text No.6 Autumn Pg 7
From 1979 feminist journalist Ellen Willis was one of the early voices criticizing anti-pornography feminists for what she saw as sexual puritanism, moral authoritarianism and a threat to free speech. Her 1981 essay, Lust Horizons: Is the Women’s Movement Pro-Sex? is the origin of the term, “pro-sex feminism”.[14
1982: Time Magazine publishes cover story on Herpes
https://elladawson.com/2015/07/25/time-magazine-ruined-herpes-journalism-heres-how-to-fix-it/
“Whoever wrote and researched this piece (MAUREEN DOWD) has some great hatred for the “sexual revolution” and wanted to make it seem like herpes was God’s great reckoning for women’s sexual freedom.
1983: McMartin Preschool Trial. After six years of criminal trials, no convictions were obtained, and all charges were dropped in 1990. It had been the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history.[2]
1983: Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality by Ann Snitow
makes the case for sex-positive feminism in response to the notorious “sex wars” of the early 1980s that split the movement apart over such issues as sexuality, pornography, and prostitution. The Feminist Memoir Project (1998) preserves for posterity the ephemeral memories of more than 35 aging early activists. https://www.thenation.com/article/ann-snitow-feminist-obituary/
1981 The Age Taboo by Daniel Tsang (ed) NAMBLA wrote:
“…the real issue is the liberation of young people, so that they are empowered to make their own decisions regarding all aspects of their lives, including their sexuality.”
1986: NZ Telethon raised $5.5 million when lesbian activists Miriam Saphira and Hillary Haines claimed that one in eight NZ fathers sexually abused their daughters. https://menz.org.nz/cosa/how-the-mental-health-foundation-is-trying-to-drive-us-mad/
1986: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation by Roger Scruton, in which the author discusses sexual desire and erotic love, arguing against the idea that the former expresses the animal part of human nature while the latter is an expression of its rational side.
rejected Foucault’s claim that sexual morality is culturally relative in Sexual Desire (1986) – which Scrunton said was an answer to Foucault’s work.[42].
He argues that homosexuality is a perversion, as is a form of masturbation.
He criticises Sigmund Freud, arguing that psychoanalytic theory unacceptably depends on metaphor and that its scientific status is questionable. He also criticises feminism and the work of the biologist Alfred Kinsey, describing it as reductive and as involving misrepresentation of sexual arousal and desire.
1987: Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/IntercourseI.html
” We are poorer than men in money and so we have to barter sex or sell it outright (which is why they keep us poorer in money). We are poorer than men in psychological well-being because for us self-esteem depends on the approval–frequently expressed through sexual desire–of those who have and exercise power over us”.
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“Women have needed what can be gotten through intercourse: the economic and psychological survival; access to male power through access to the male who has it; having some hold–psychological, sexual, or economic–on the ones who act, who decide, who matter. ”
1988: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by poet Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
1988: Dworkin says of libertarian women: “They are collaborators, nor feminists”.
1990s
1993: In the early 1990s, Jeffrey Masson had been engaged to University of Michigan feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon, who wrote the preface to his A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century.[19][20]
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-10-24-op-49129-story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/11/28/penthouse-pest/45ed3221-767a-4865-99ee-c53a0d40c960/
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/1993/10/sex-in-the-twilight-zone-catharine-mackinnonas-crusade
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-06-04-9306040249-story.html
1998: Rind et al – A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples. Controversially concluding that the harm caused by child sexual abuse was not necessarily intense or pervasive,[3] that the prevailing construct of CSA was not scientifically valid, as it failed empirical verification, and that the psychological damage caused by the abusive encounters depends on other factors such as the degree of coercion or force involved.[1] The debate resulted in the unprecedented condemnation of the paper by both chambers of the United States Congress. The social science research community was concerned that the condemnation by government legislatures might have a chilling effect on the future publication of controversial research results.
2000s
2009: The philosopher Mark Dooley called Sexual Desire “magisterial” in Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach (2009). He observed that Scruton’s objective is to show that sexual desire fundamentally enriches a person’s experience of the sacred.[74]
https://www.villagevoice.com/2005/10/18/lust-horizons/ by Ellen Willis
The cultural backlash was going strong, but there was little point in attacking the Christian right or Ronald Reagan to Voice readers. As writers and editors the feminists at the Voice were more concerned with confronting the left — which increasingly defended “traditional values” and disparaged feminist concerns like abortion as an elitist distraction from “real” issues — and conservative trends in the feminist movement itself.
During the ’80s the Voice became the prime public forum for “politically incorrect” radical-feminist libertarians who continued to criticize marriage and the family, insisted on defending abortion, not just “choice,” and advocated what would come to be known (after a piece of mine called “Lust Horizons: Is the Women’s Movement Pro-Sex?”) as “pro-sex feminism.” We took on the anti-pornography movement, which had dominated the feminist conversation about sex: As we saw it, the claim that “pornography is violence against women” was code for the neo-Victorian idea that men want sex and women endure it.
2010s
2016: The Next Frontier in the Sexual Revolution? Modern Christian view:
https://www.thetrumpet.com/13325-the-next-frontier-in-the-sexual-revolution
Michael L. Brown, author of the book A Queer Thing Happened to America, wrote this in the Christian Post: “[S]ome psychiatric leaders who were instrumental in removing homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental disorders in 1973 have been fighting to remove pedophilia as a disorder as well, not to justify the abuse of children but rather to say that being sexually attracted to children is not a mental disorder” (Sept. 28, 2015
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Maines, Rachel (1999). The technology of Orgasm: ‘Hysteria’, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Historically, hysteria was thought to manifest itself in women (female hysteria) with a variety of symptoms, including: anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, insomnia, irritability, nervousness, as well as sexually forward behaviour.[5]
2018: Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense by Mona Charen
https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Matters-Modern-Feminism-Science/dp/0451498399
“Women’s Desire for sex is less urgent and less powerful than men’s. Accordingly, nature has given women an advantage or bargaining chip with men. Why should women give that up? Why did they?”
1986: The Betrayal of Youth by Warren Middleton (ed) Quoted in Anticlimax:
Gay Youth Movement Charter – liberation required inclusion of “all other oppressed groups, including sexual minorities such as transsexual, transvestites and pedophiles.”
1995: Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights by Nadine Strossen (No Kindle version)
The president of the ACLU argues that censorship against “pornography” actually harms women rather than protecting them.
She ascribes feminist panic over sexual expression to a surge in “cultural feminism,” which was a response to 1970s setbacks to more tangible feminist projects like the ERA.
2018: 1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revoltion by Robert C, Cottrell and Blaine T, Brown
https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=ImJUDwAAQBAJ
Re Sandra Cason Hayden and Mary King (see above 1994)
details on pg 202 about formation of New York Radical Women in 1968 (Robin Morgan, Shulamith Firestone,
Carol Hanisch: Personal is Political
Kathie Sarachild: consciousness-raising
2012: Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America by Nancy L Cohen
https://www.amazon.com/Delirium-Sexual-Counterrevolution-Polarizing-America/dp/1582438013
about “sexual counter-revolution” – very orientated to USA politics
https://www.scribd.com/document/84380703/Delirium-Introduction
Delirium investigates a shadow movement that has polarized our country. One of the leading forces fueling America’s political wars has been the reaction against the sexual revolution and the progressive movements that emerged from it: feminism and gay rights.
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The sexual counter-revolution was not just a passing backlash. It was an ideologically powered, strategically organized, and well-financed political movement that persists to this day.
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When George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee, lost the presidential election by a landslide, Democratic political and opinion leaders attributed the loss to the radicalism of McGovern’s supporters. Gays, feminists, multiculturalists and elitist college students, they claimed, had alienated Middle America by flouting its traditional values.
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https://brooklynrail.org/2013/02/express/the-body-politic
“Delirium” is a provocative title for this book. Yet one of the weaknesses of this otherwise important study is that while Cohen repeatedly invokes the title, she never defines it. Medically, the term signifies a state of mental confusion, often the result of fever or intoxication. Popularly, it suggests wild excitement. But the word also has religious connotations.
The First Great Awakening in the mid- 18th century infused traditional Protestantism with a new spirit of revival and a belief in the supernatural, transforming the nation’s religious ethos. The Second Great Awakening, beginning in the late- 18th and culminating in the early- 19th century, fueled a new spirit of revival that spread from New York across much of rural America. A spirit of religious “delirium” marked these movements, and this fevered revivalism also helped spawn some of today’s charismatic Christian devotees, like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who generally opt out of politics, and Pentecostals, who tend to lean right. Failure to make these connections is a lost opportunity to place the Christian right in a larger context, one that continues to cast a shadow over American life.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/radical-feminists-and-conservative-christians-team-up-against-transgender-people
as described in Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography, the far left-far right alliance succeeded in passing laws limiting the distribution not just of pornography but of a wide variety of texts and films—including, ironically, two of Dworkin’s own books.
Quoted in Anticlimax:
Paedophile Information Exchange PIE
chairperson Keith Hose, interviewed in radical left journal Leveller
“Paedophilia only condemned because it threatens some of the basic institutions of capitalism, such as the nuclear family.”
Theoretically catered to women although only rumors, Hetros attracted to girls also rare.
Peace News provided a forum open to discussions of paedophilia, by Roger Moody and others.
Eric Presland sought “the incorporation of children’s and paedophiles’ liberation into the broad alliance of the sexual left” (ref: Presland in Middleton, The Betrayal of Youth, pg 86)
Shelia Jeffreys Quoted in Anticlimax: 1990:
“We must remember that the libertarian left of the 1970s believed that the nuclear family was a construct of capitalism and was sexually repressive, and it believed in the idea of children’s liberation.”
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“The determination of adults, who are in a relationship of power towards children, to speak for them should cause alarm.”
1984: Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality edited by Carole Vance includes
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-century Feminist Sexual Thought
by Linda Gordon and Ellen Carol Duiboise:
“In reaction to the profound disappointments of what has passed for ‘sexual liberation’, some feminists are replicating an earlier tradition, focusing exclusively on danger and advocating what ewe believe to be a conservative sexual politics.”
1972: Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler whose thesis is “that double standards of mental health and illness exist and that women are often punitively labeled as a function of gender, race, class, or sexual preference”.
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Chesler has studied male psychology and published a book on the subject (About Men 1978) which discussed the father-son, mother-son, and brother-brother relationships; the book also tried to understand male conformity, how and why men obeyed the orders of male tyrants, and what kind of men resisted doing so.[24]
1974: Vaginal Politics by Ellen Frankfort – anti- medical establishment
1986: Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex by Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs
2014: The End of Men: And the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
Article Boys on the Side in Atlantic:
“Single Young women in their sexual prime – that is, their 20s and early 30s…- are for the first time in history more successful, on average, than the single young men around them. They are more likely to have a college degree and, in aggregate, they make more money. What makes this remarkable development possible is not just the pill or legal abortion but the whole new landscape of sexual freedom- the ability to delay marriage and have temporary relationships that don’t derail education or career. To put it crudely, feminist progress right now largely depends on the existence of the hookup culture.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/02/28/1970s-feminist-movement-helped-create-religious-right
In the spring of 1977, feminists and conservative women prepared, separately, for the tumultuous International Women’s Year (IWY) conferences set to take place by year’s end.
https://religionandpolitics.org/2019/04/16/how-prominent-women-built-and-sustained-the-religious-right/
In September 1983, Beverly LaHaye gave a press conference in Washington, DC, to announce that her four-year-old lobbying group Concerned Women for America (CWA) was about to become a force to be reckoned with in the nation’s capital. “This is our message: The feminists do not speak for all women in America,” she asserted… Beverly LaHaye stepped down as acting president of CWA in 2006, after holding the office since 1979
This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian Right By Emily Johnson | April 16, 2019
2017: Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics. by Marjorie Spruill
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/divided-we-stand-9781632863157/
More than forty years ago, two women’s movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today.
“Up to the mid-70s, both parties believed they ought to be supporting the women’s rights movement,”
In 1972, conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly launched a movement whose goals—protecting women’s place as homemakers, fighting against abortion, and limiting government welfare and social support—have come to define the modern debate over women’s rights and the role of government in enforcing them.
articles about new book Divided We Stand
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1977-conference-womens-rights-split-america-two-180962174/
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/45/when-the-anti-feminists-roared-back/
What many readers will be surprised to learn, however, is that feminists’ success in flexing their collective political muscle owed a lot to the Republican Party. In fact, liberal feminists, who aimed to integrate women fully into public life, enjoyed substantial support from Republicans, some of whom hoped to make the GOP the party of equal rights feminism.
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Introduced in Congress in 1923, the ERA effectively split the post-suffrage women’s movement into opposing camps. The ERA exposed a longstanding tension within feminism, as some argued that women’s situation might be better advanced through strategies that favored equality while others opted for strategies that emphasized difference that is, women’s inherent differences from men.
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Making sense of Republicans’ support for feminism more broadly requires understanding intra-party politics, and Spruill explains this well. Still smarting from Barry Goldwater’s embarrassing defeat in the 1964 presidential election, the party establishment worked to put distance between itself and its right wing. Supporting women’s rights became one way of doing this. Political opportunism also played a role. Aware of feminism’s growing popularity, some Republicans, such as party leader Rogers Morton, wanted to see the GOP become the party championing women’s rights.
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By the time Reagan was elected President in 1980, the party’s liberal wing had been marginalized, and anti-feminist “family values” ideology was becoming baked deep into the GOP’s ideology and agenda.
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Schlafly was a reluctant warrior against the ERA, which she initially considered somewhere between “innocuous and mildly helpful.” Her political passion was, instead, national defense, and, at this point, the “social issues” that were beginning to animate the country’s emerging New Right did not move her. But in February 1972, at the urging of other conservative women, Schlafly came out against the ERA. Given Schlafly’s outsized influence in torpedoing the ERA, one wishes that Spruill lingered on this fateful pivot just a while longer. One wonders if Schlafly was entirely won over by ideological arguments, as Spruill’s narrative suggests, or whether political opportunism also figured in her decision.
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Spruill recognizes the importance of gender to the culture wars and the remaking of the Republican Party, but Divided We Stand’s determinedly birdseye view of these battles results in a book more descriptive than analytical. A lot of ink has been spilled on this fight and one wishes that she would have engaged, for example, with the work of Deirdre English, who notably argued that feminism’s female antagonists were actually moved by the fear that feminism would free men first.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/perfectenemies.htm
In her attacks on the ERA, Schlafly established the tone for the wildly exaggerated charges and scare tactics–many of them involving homosexuality–that would come to be employed by antigay activists for years to come. Throughout her ten-year battle, Schlafly erroneously claimed that the ERA would lead to the conscription of women for military service on a par with men, force the sharing of public bathrooms by both genders, and mandate state-funded abortions. In one particularly incendiary advertisement, the Eagle Forum claimed that the ERA, or Amendment Six, was not just about the “sex you are, male or female,” but the “sex you engage in, homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual,” or even “sex with children.”
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For Schlafly, the injection of the gay issue into the ERA debate had the added benefit of dividing the amendment’s supporters. After the lesbian and socialist banners that dotted pro-ERA demonstrations became staples of the opposition’s depictions of them, the National Organization for Women banned them from their demonstrations. The lesbian purges threatened to tear apart the feminist movement. In one infamous episode Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique and cofounder of NOW, called the presence of lesbians among the pro-ERA forces the “lavender menace,” eliciting an outcry from lesbian activists both inside and outside the organization.
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Building on her friend Phyllis Schlafly’s anti-ERA campaign, Bryant founded an antigay group, Save Our Children, Inc., which would establish the tone of the gay rights battles long after Bryant, whose well-publicized divorce cut into her credibility, had dropped out of politics.
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The most bitter showdown came in California in 1978, when state senator and gubernatorial candidate John Briggs of Fullerton, armed with Bryant’s contributor list, launched a drive to ban open homosexuals, or anyone advocating the ‘gay lifestyle,” from teaching in public schools. Largely as a result of unexpected opposition from then-governor Ronald Reagan and other prominent conservatives, the Briggs initiative lost by more than one million votes, 3.9 million to 2.8 million. Under intense lobbying from gay activists including David Mixner, who would go on to become a key adviser to President Clinton, Reagan refused to endorse the initiative on libertarian grounds, which should have tipped off his religious right supporters that he was not to be their messiah. The initiative “is not needed to protect our children–we have that legal protection now,” Reagan said. “It has the potential of real mischief…. What if an overwrought youngster, disappointed by bad grades, imagined it was the teacher’s fault and struck out by accusing the teacher of advocating homosexuality. Innocent lives could be ruined.”
HISTORY AND THEORY OF FEMINISM
http://www.gender.cawater-info.net/knowledge_base/rubricator/feminism_e.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/germaine-greer-metoo-harvey-weinstein-spread-legs-reject-feminism-a8174211.html
The views Greer is expressing today shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 1999’s The Whole Woman she argues that “if women are to reject the role of natural-born victim, they will have to reject the ludicrous elevation of the humble penis to the status of devastating weapon”.
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Greer started her promotional campaign earlier this year when she opined that the rise in representations of sexual violence on TV was due to women’s enjoyment of watching other women being sexually assaulted and that women fantasised about being subjected to sexual violence.
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http://theconversation.com/germaine-greer-from-feminist-firebrand-to-professional-troll-97645 (2018)
Greer’s comments echo those of other public figures such as Richard Dawkins, Kenneth Clarke, Judy Finnegan and NYPD officer Peter Rose, who have assumed a “hierarchy of rape” – the idea that some rapes are “worse” than others (although Clarke and Finneganlater apologised) and only victims who display the external marks of physical violence are worthy of serious concern.
Dr. Sherfey quoted in Women Hating by Dworkin
“In many primate species, the females would be diagnosed hermaphrodites if they were human”
Delerium by Nancy Cohen:
always existed a strain of sexual radicalism in America, from Free Love in 1860s to Greenwich Village Bohemians of 1910s