The rear view of a G-stringed nymph was bad enough. The photo of a smiling black woman swathed in chains was even worse. But the final straw was the June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them all.
The resulting "sexism trial" has...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
