The Nation: The Disney Fetish

One poster, psychedelically colored, shows the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and a naked Tinker Bell, and other Walt Disney characters indulging in what looks like one of the Marquis de Sade's more complicated performances. Meantime, Mickey Mouse is shooting heroin into his arm. In another poster, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy are getting stoned on a water pipe.

Besides the profit motive and what has become a rather relentless desire to give offense, there seems in such new novelty and head shop items an impulse to debunk childhood...

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