People for the American Way is releasing a study this week of 204 "challenges to artistic free expression" during 1992-93. These include attempts to remove paintings from exhibitions, stop productions of plays, revoke arts funding and the like. Here is a partial breakdown of the cataloged objections (categories may overlap):
--Nudity and/or sexual content 50%
--Offensive/inappropriate political content 31%
--Antireligious content 16%
--Homosexual content 13%
--Racist/ethnically insensitive content 7%
--Sexually harassing content 6%
--Aesthetically unpleasing/ugly 1.5%
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