by Ben Shapiro
22 Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Children, Violence, and the Media: A Report for Parents and Policy Makers,” Congressional Information Service, Inc. Policy Papers, 14 September 1999
23 “Hillary Clinton Tells P. Diddy ‘Vote or Die’ Slogan Hits Nail On The Head,” MTV.com, 5 August 2004
24 Dave McNary, “THE CLASS OF 2000,” The Daily News of Los Angeles, 11 July 1999
25 Polly Drew, “Parents can slow the swift movement of children becoming young adults,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 November 1999
26 Meena Thiruvengadam, “‘Sex and the City’ fans take a tour to nirvana,” Chicago Tribune , 13 February 2005
27 Sex and the City, “Belles of the Balls,” TBS, 4 January 2005, 9:30 pm EST, http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/campaigns/sexinthecity/main.asp
28 Sex and the City, TBS, 3 August 2004, 10:00 pm EST, http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/campaigns/sexinthecity/main.asp
29 Sex and the City, “Luck Be An Old Lady,” TBS, 15 Feburary 2005, 9:00 PM EST, http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/campaigns/sexinthecity/main.asp
30 Terry Gross, “Michael Patrick King discusses the writing of the HBO series ‘Sex and the City’,” Fresh Air on NPR, 12:00 Noon PM ET, 22 January 2002
31 Ibid
32 Ibid
33 Ibid
34 Teresa Gubbins, “Going out, tuning in,” The Dallas Morning News, 30 June 2001
35 Sarah Portlock, “NYU students say goodbye to ‘Sex,’” Washington Square News, 23 February 2004
36 Interview, 18 March 2005.
37 Meena Thiruvengadam, “‘Sex and the City’ fans take a tour to nirvana,” Chicago Tribune , 13 February 2005
38 Julie Salamon, “The Rating Says PG, But Is That Guidance Enough?,” The New York Times, 7 January 2005
39 Lyle V. Harris, “Home $ sex, thugs, vulgar roles,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution , 2 August 1998
40 Mark Dawidziak, “Showtime sees chance to ditch HBO’s shadow,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, 20 February 2005
41 Gillian Flynn, “Sapphic Designs,” Entertainment Weekly, 25 February 2005
42 Lily Oei, “EMMY’S NEW BREED: THE L WORD,” Daily Variety, 17 June 2004
43 Howard Rosenberg, “TELEVISION REVIEW; SEX AND THE STEEL CITY,” Los Angeles Times, 2 December 2000
44 Rita Zekis, “Size matters, says TV stylist,” The Toronto Star, 25 February 2005
45 “MADE FOR MAYBELLINE,” Malay Mail, 21 October 2004
46 Richard Williamson, “Y&R Spotlights Stars for 7-Up Plus,” ADWEEK.COM, 22 October 2004
47 Gene Edward Veith, “Friends like these,” World Magazine, 22 May 2004
48 Tony Scott, “Friends,” Daily Variety, 22 September 1994
49 Eleska Aubespin, “Issue of unwed mother fails to cause stir,” FLORIDA TODAY, 16 May 2002
50 Sarah Warn, “Lesbian Friends: Legacy of a Sitcom,” afterellen.com, May 2004
51 Phil Rosenthal, “No turning back,” Chicago Sun-Times, 6 May 2004
52 Bonnie Britton, “They’re ‘Friends’ to the end,” The Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2004
53 Jennifer Frey, “Shelter From Reality in The Company of ‘Friends’,” The Washington Post, 5 May 2004
54 Lyle V. Harris, “Home $ sex, thugs, vulgar roles,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution , 2 August 1998
55 Helen Barlow, “And baby makes three,” Sunday Mail, 8 December 2002
56 Lisa de Moraes, “The Outer Limits,” The Washington Post, 3 March 1999
57 Michelle Cottle, “The Battle Is Over, but the War Goes On,” Time Magazine, 6 December 2004
58 Manuel Mendoza, “Family hour steaming up,” The Dallas Morning News, 12 December 1996
59 Rob Owen, “‘CITY OF ANGELS’ POSES TIME-SLOT QUANDARY FOR HIT-HAPPY CBS,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 13 January 2000
60 Erika N. Duckworth, “The ring is the thing,” St. Petersburg Times, 21 February 1997
61 Manuel Mendoza, “Family hour steaming up,” The Dallas Morning News, 12 December 1996
62 L. Brent Bozell III, “Shrinking bankroll for TV sleaze,” The Washington Times, 28 November 1995
63 Andrea Ford, “SWINDLERS USE TV SHOW TO DUPE STUDENTS, REINER SAYS,” Los Angeles Times, 19 November 1991
64 Melanie McFarland, “FOX’S HANDSOM ‘THE O.C.’ MAY BE JUST WHAT TEENS CRAVE,” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5 August 2003
65 Christian Toto, “TUNING IN TO TV,” The Washington Times, 28 April 2004
66 “The making of Feist,” The Toronto Star, 15 January 2005
67 Ann Oldenburg, “‘The O.C.’ stirs latest TV lesbian controversy,” USA Today, 9 February 2005
68 Ibid
69 Episode #423, “Coda”
70 Hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, “Subject: TV Rating System,” Federal News Service, 27 February 1997
71 “Another Powell Departs,” The New York Times, 24 January 2005
72 Dan Quayle, “THE VICE PRESIDENT SPEAKS,” commonwealthclub.org, 19 May 1992, http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/20thcentury/92-05quayle-speech.html
73 Andrew Rosenthal, “Quayle’s Moment,” The New York Times, 5 July 1992
74 Ibid
75 Eleanor Clift with Clara Bingham, “The Murphy Brown Policy,” Newsweek, 1 June 1992
76 Kenneth L. Woodward, “The Elite, and How to Avoid It,” Newsweek, 20 July 1992
77 Interview with Lisa Schiffer, February 16, 2005
78 Kenneth L. Woodward, “The Elite, and How to Avoid It,” Newsweek, 20 July 1992
79 Adam Miller, “CANDICE VS. QUAYLE: ROUND TWO,” The New York Post, 24 July 1998
80 Interview with Lisa Schiffer, February 16, 2005
81 Rebecca L. Collins, PhD, et al, “Watching Sex on Television Predicts Adolescent Initiation of Sexual Behavior,” PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 3, September 2004
82 Victor Godinez, “TECH BITS,” The Dallas Morning news, 26 February 2005
CHAPTER 9: PORN AND POPCORN
1 Elliot Paul and Luis Quintanilla, With a Hays Nonny Nonny (New York: Random House, 1942), 20-40
2 Noelle Hancock, Blair Golson and Ben Smith, “Runway Rubber-Necking,” New York Observer, 20 September 2004
3 Lynda Gorov, “STEPPING DOWN FROM THE THRONE,” The Boston Globe, 4 April 2004
4 Ibid
5 Elliot Paul and Luis Quintanilla, With a Hays Nonny Nonny (New York: Random House, 1942), 20-40
6 Marybeth Hamilton, “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It” in Ed. Francis G. Cou-vares, movie Censorship and American Culture (Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996), 187-189
7 Anthony Slide, Banned in the USA (London and New York: IB Tauris Publishers, 1998), 2
8 Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons, The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), 28
9 Ibid, 5-6
10 Steve Sailer, “Film of the Week: ‘Femme Fatale’,” United Press International, 7 November 2002
11 Nell Minow, “Shocked, Mr. Mogul? Look at the world you tell kids is cool,” Chicago Tribune, 2 March 2004
12 Jack Valenti, “How It Works,” http://mpaa.org/movieratings/about/content.htm
13 Jack Valenti, “How It Works,” http://mpaa.org/movieratings/about/content4.htm
14 Jack Valenti, “How It Works,” http://mpaa.org/movieratings/about/content5.htm
15 Jack Valenti, “How It Works,” http://mpaa.org/movieratings/about/content3.htm
16 Amy Wallace, “SUNDAY REPORT; MPAA’S DOZEN JUDGE MOVIES FOR MILLIONS,” Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1999
17 Bernard Weinraub, “Fun for the Whole Family,” The New York Times, 22 July 1997
18 L. Brent Bozell III, “Tinseltown’s Abandoned Children?,” Creators Syndicate, 29 July 1997
19 “Study Finds ‘Ratings Cree’: Movie Ratings Categories Contain More Violence, Sex, Profanity than Decade Ago,” Harvard School of Public Health Press Release, 13 July
2004
20 Kimberly M. Thompson, ScD, Fumie Yokota, PhD, “Violence, Sex, and Profanity in Films: Correlation of Movie Ratings With Content,” Medscape General Medicine, 12 July 2004
21 “A Life in Pictures; Jack Valenti,” CBS News Transcripts, 27 June 2004, 9:00 AM EST
22 Miki Turner, “Nude or not?,” Chicago Tribune, 3 December 2004
23 Robert Philpot, “Sizzlers and fizzlers of the summer movie season,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram , 23 August 2001
24 Bruce Kirkland, “BREAST DEFENCE: BERRY DENIES EXTRA PAY FOR FLASH,” Edmonton Sun, 5 June 2001
25 Jay Boyar, “BERRY BARES DEEP THOUGHTS: THE ACTRESS TALKS ABOUT NUDITY IN MOVIES AND THE OSCAR BUZZ AROUND HER,” Orlando Sentinel, 15 February 2002
26 Bruce Kirkland, “BREAST DEFENCE: BERRY DENIES EXTRA PAY FOR FLASH,” Edmonton Sun, 5 June 2001
27 Ruth Hilton, “SHE PLAYS A FEISTY SPY WHO REVEWALS ALL IN HER NEW HIT FILM SWORDFISH BUT BEHIND THE SCENES, ACTRESS HALLE BERRY HAS HAD TO OVERCOME A SERIES OF REAL-LIFE DRAMAS: I WAS NEVER PAID GBP 375,000 FOR MY NUDE SCENE...IF I WERE SELLING THESE BREASTS I’D ASK A LOT MORE,” The Express, 27 July 2001
28 Ibid
29 Jay Boyar, “BERRY BARES DEEP THOUGHTS: THE ACTRESS TALKS ABOUT NUDITY IN MOVIES AND THE OSCAR BUZZ AROUND HER,” Orlando Sentinel, 15 February 2002
30 Ibid
31 Michael Rechtshaffen, “Monster’s Ball,” Hollywood Reporter, 13 November 2001
32 Jeff Simon, “BERRY BOND: OSCAR WINNER SPICES UP 20TH IN BOND FRANCHISE,” Buffalo News, 22 November 2002
33 Edward Guthmann, “Hot and heavy,” San Francisco Chronicle, 25 January 2002
34 Mark Rahner, “‘Black Hawk Down’ relies history; ‘Kate & Leopold’ messes with it,” Seattle Times, 19 June 2002
35 “Church in Turmoil; Touring the Neighborhood; Making History,” The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript, 25 March 2002
36 Ann Coulter, “I like black people too, Julia!” Anncoulter.org, 28 March 2002
37 Ibid
38 Miki Turner, “Nude or not?,” Chicago Tribune, 3 December 2004
39 Jami Bernard, “VIRGIN ON THE RIDICULOUS,” Daily News, 6 May 2001
40 Andy Seiler, “A-list actresses bare all for their art,” USA Today, 2 November 2003
41 Gillian Flynn, “The Woolf Woman,” Entertainment Weekly, 10 January 2003
42 Larry King, “Interviews With Nicole Kidman, Anthony Minghella, Ed Norton, Bill Medley, Kim Cattrall, John Hastings,” CNN LARY KING LIVE 21:00), 24 January 2004
43 Mark Kermode, “The power of three,” New Statesman, 15 December 2003
44 Bryan Burrough, “OVITZ AGONISTES,” Vanity Fair, August 2002
45 Rick Lyman, “Ovitz Bitterly Bares Soul, And Film Industry Reacts,” The New York Times, 3 July 2002
46 Linda Stasi, “GAY ‘MOB’ FLEXES ITS MUSCLE,” The New York Post, 7 July 2002
47 Jonathan Bing and Dade Hayes, “OVITZ BITES BACK AT H’WD,” Daily Variety, 2 June 2002
48 Debbie Woodell, “‘Gay mafia’? Them’s fightin’ words,” Philadelphia Daily News, 16 July 2002
49 “Fallen Giant Sets Hollywood Abuzz,” CBSNews.com, 3 July 2002
50 Jonathan Bing and Dade Hayes, “OVITZ BITES BACK AT H’WD,” Daily Variety, 2 June 2002
51 Lorenza Munoz, “‘Dinner’ Roasts Ovitz, With ‘Godfather’s’ Help,” Los Angeles Times, 11 October 2002
52 Rachel Abramowitz, “Meeting the Little People on the Way Back Down,” Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2002
53 Michelangelo Signorile, “About that Gay Mafia... ,” New York Press, 9 July 2002
54 Manohla Dargis, “Summer Sneaks; ON FILM; You guys are beautiful,” Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2004
55 Jon Lockett, “WIFE WON’T LET ME; I WON’T BE YOUR GAY LOVER, SAYS BRAD,” Daily Star, 13 September 2003
56 Hannah Mcgill, “Playing gay in Hollywood remains a mammoth taboo. Even the most daring actors shirk from it,” The Herald, 29 February 2004
57 George Rush and Joanna Molloy with Jo Piazza and Chris Rovzar, “MALE STARS ARE DOING A CROSSOVER ACT,” New York Daily News, 21 June 2004
58 Cristiano Del Riccio, “FILM: GAY HEROES HOT TOPIC IN HOLLYWOOD,” ANSA English Media Service, 22 June 2004
59 Rebecca Ascher-Walsh et al, “FALL MOVIE PREVIEW: November,” Entertainment Weekly, 20 August 2004
60 Bob Crisp, “ANGELINA: MY LOVE FOR FILM GIRL JEN,” Daily Star, 2 August 2003
61 Paul Tatara, “Review: ‘The Full Monty’ delivers some belly laughs,” CNN.com, 7 September 1997
62 Roger Kaufman, “COUNTERPUNCH; IT’S TIME TO OUT GAY STEREOTYPING IN FILMS,” Los Angeles Times, 24 January 2000
63 “All-Time USA Boxoffice,” IMDB.com, http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross
64 “$100 million movies,” WashingtonPost.com, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/movies/100million/article.htm
65 Jane Ganahl, “The fake-lesbian kiss—sexual revolution or ratings ploy?,” San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2002
66 Religion News Service, “Poll finds youth support for gay rights,” Baptist Standard, 29 October 2001
67 “Lesbians and Gays Enraged at Hollywood Stereotypes,” Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Press Release, 21 March 1991
68 Gloria Goodale, “Battles Over Media Violence Move To a New Frontier: the internet,” Christian Science Monitor, 18 November 1996
CHAPTER 10: THE LOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
1 Reprinted in Tom Wolfe, The Purple Decades (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982), 287-288
2 Associated Press, “ ‘Basically, I was normal,’ killer says,” The Toronto Star, 25 January 1989
3 Al Goldstein, “THE PERVERSION OF TRUTH CONTINUES IN ALLEGING A PORN-CRIME LINK,” Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1989
4 Philip Nobile, “The making of a monster,” Playboy, July 1989
5 “Sex: the good, the bad and the kinky,” Playboy, July 1990
6 Ibid
7 Kelly Patricia O’Meara, “Free Speech Trumps ‘Virtual’ Child Porn,” Insight on the News, 27 May 2002
8 Janny Scott and John Dart, “BUNDY’S TAPE FUELS DISPUTE ON PORN, ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR,” Los Angeles Times, 30 January 1989
9 Dr. Kerry Hollowell, “America’s sexual holocaust,” WorldNetDaily.com, 3 April 2004
10 Connie Cass, “Addiction to porn destroying lives, Senate told,” Associated Press, 18 November 2004
11 Robert D. Richards and Clay Calvert, “The Politics of Porn,” The Boston Globe, 27 December 2004
12 Vincent F.A. Golphin, “PORNOGRAPHY: WHEN A PICTURE SAYS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE,” The Post-Standard, 4 March 1989
13 Associated Press, “Justices block internet porn law,” MSNBC.com, 28 June 2004
14 Reprinted in Tom Wolfe, The Purple Decades (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982), 288
15 http://www.dejavu.com
16 Amanda Castleman, “Beauty for rent,” The Online Daily of the University of Washington, 2 October 1996
17 Ibid
18 Associated Press, “Police turn over campus porn movie report,” CNN.com, 3 December 2002
19 http://www.barelylegal.com/index.php?page=2&LNK=IBB61&CLICK=461,1,bl, http://www.google.com/search~063q~061barely~043legal~038hl~061en~038lr~061
20 Interview, 10 January 2005
21 Cheryl Wetzstein, “Porn on the web exploding,” The Washington Times, 9 October 2003
22 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
23 Cheryl Wetzstein, “Porn on the web exploding,” The Washington Times, 9 October 2003
24 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
25 Ibid
26 Ibid
27 David Legard, “IM Spam Set to Triple,” PC World, 29 March 2004
28 Ramona Richards, “Dirty Little Secret,” Today’s Christian Woman, S
eptember /October 2003
29 Cheryl Wetzstein, “Porn on the web exploding,” The Washington Times, 9 October 2003
30 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
31 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
32 Ramona Richards, “Dirty Little Secret,” Today’s Christian Woman, September /October 2003
33 Editorial, “We’ve Got Porn,” Christianity Today, 12 June 2000
34 Paul Strand, “Exposing Faith Through the XXX Church,” CBN.com, 7 May 2004
35 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
36 David Finkelhor, Kimberly J. Mitchell, and Janis Wolak, “Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth,” National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, June 2000
37 “Internet Pornography Statistics,” Internet Filter Review, http://www.internetfilterreview.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html
38 David Finkelhor, Kimberly J. Mitchell, and Janis Wolak, “Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth,” National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, June 2000
39 Ibid
40 Ibid
41 Ibid
42 Dr. Kerry Hollowell, “America’s sexual holocaust,” WorldNetDaily.com, 3 April 2004
43 David Amsden, “Not Tonight, Honey. I’m Logging On.,” NewYorkMetro.com, 20 October 2003
44 Jeffrey P. Moran, Teaching Sex (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000), 156-157
45 Donna Britt, “Man in Crisis Sure to Stand By Her Hand,” Washington Post, 16 January 2004
46 “ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES 19:00,” CNN Transcript, 4 December 2003
47 “DILLER HAS WRIGHT STUFF FOR NBC,” New York Post, 28 June 2000
48 Stephen Schaefer, “TV; ‘Swear’ tries to tell truth of Bruce,” Boston Herald, 6 August 1999
49 James L. Lambert, “Christian Broadcaster Blasts Carl’s, Jr. for Ad’s Sexual Innuendo,” American Family Association Agape Press News, 14 November 2003
50 Associated Press, “Justices block Internet porn law,” MSNBC.com, 29 June 2004
51 Ibid
52 Tracy Quan, “Naked ambition,” Los Angeles Times, 7 November 2004
