Forum, Apr. 26, 1976

Smut-Nuts and Peep-Creeps

To the Editors:

In spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization.

Debra Shevlin

Greenlawn, N. Y.

Let's round up all the smut-nuts, peep-creeps, massage-kneaders, and their exploiters and launch the raunch on an ark down our sewers.

Ronald Laspagnoletta

The Bronx, N. Y.

Charges that porn is a literature of sexual hostility and male machismo spring not from careful study, but from unexamined prejudices and preconceptions....

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