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Title: Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth by Marjorie Heins ISBN: 0374175454 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75
Rating: 3
Summary: Author Brought up Good Issues
Comment: My reading group chose this book, because we felt that there weren't many books out there that focused on the topic of censorship and the protection of children and innocence. But while she brings up many issues that shows censorship as troublesome, she addresses them in such a dry manner that it became harder to read as the book became more or a summary of all the court cases there have been regarding the issues. It would be a great book for a communication or law class, but for recreational reading, it was very difficult for us as readers to get to the end of the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Protectionism is Harmful to Minors
Comment: Though the scholarly discussions of legal cases were trying (pardon the pun) to get through, they were worth the effort. They helped to dramatize the incredible amounts of time, energy, and emotion misplaced in the "harm to minors" protectionism racket. Due to her civil libertarian background, I was surprised to see her frequent attempts to present (or at least understand) both sides.
She points out that censorship itself may have "modeling effects, teaching authoritarianism, intolerance for unpopular opions, erotophobia, and sexual guilt." In her conclusion, she comes utterly to the point: "Censorship is an avoidance technique that addresses adult anxieties and satisfies symbolic concerns, but ultimately does nothing to resolve social problems or affirmatively help adolescents and children cope with their environments and impulses."
She revisits the virtues (for all of us, including children) of ambiguity, catharsis, and irony and says that the humorless overliteralism of so much censorship directed at youth "reduces the difficult, complicated, joyous, and sometimes tortured experience of growing up to a sanitized combination of adult moralizing and intellectual closed doors."
Rating: 5
Summary: A far overdue response to the hysteria
Comment: Bravo to this book. It's time that someone injected facts and logic into debates that primarily have been based on myths, fears, guesses, hopes, assumptions, and hysteria.
A previous reviewer wants to know why we don't have more data on how, say, pornography affects teenagers. One reason is that a controlled experiment would be nearly impossible: finding teenagers who haven't been exposed to any pornography is difficult enough, but for a scientist or social scientist to get approval from human review boards for the other half of the experiment (the teenagers that you're going to make sure have been exposed to plenty of pornography, to study its supposed effects) would be nearly impossible. But as the previous reviewer points out, we have a vast profusion of anecdotal evidence: pornography is widely available in Europe, which seems to have fewer of the supposedly pornography-related problems than does the United States. Second, since almost all teenagers voluntarily expose themselves to pornography, it's safe to observe that the vast majority of them suffer from no effects. Who are we protecting with laws prohibiting minors from obtaining pornography? Parents who cannot and will not deal with the fact that their 12-year-old son is always horny and quite probably already is sexually (if not emotionally or intellectually) an adult?
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Title: Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine, Joycelyn M. Elders ISBN: 0816640068 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars by Marjorie Heins ISBN: 1565840488 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America by Eric D. Nuzum ISBN: 0688167721 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting by James R. Kincaid ISBN: 0822321939 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Government Vs. Erotica: The Siege of Adam & Eve by Philip D. Harvey, Nadine Strossen ISBN: 157392881X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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