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Article: Even liberal Sweden cracking down on porn
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 26, 1986
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We pass laws (and rightly so) against wife-battering, child
abuse and drug misuse, but to some it is almost obscene to consider
similar measures against pornography - a not-so-strange bedfellow to
all of the above.
Those who fear common-sense restraint in the matter would do
well to look at Sweden, a country that has been in the vanguard of
the sexual revolution - a revolution that has now lost its "sex
appeal."
Swedish liberals, who once fought all efforts to curb
pornography, are now demanding that controls be reimposed on the
grounds that some of the material is dangerous, even destructive.
The Swedish Sex Education Association has made an about-face and
is promoting legislation ...