Even before the Internet,
Americans loved porn. In 1983, the three most popular nudie
magazines—Playboy, Penthouse, and
Hustler—then ranked as the 14th, 17th, and 57th largest
magazines in America, distributing a combined 9 million copies each
month. The Playboy Channel, a pay-cable network devoted to the
finer things in life, was in more than 700,000 homes. The Adult
Film Association of America boasted that some 65 million X-rated
movies-back when that’s what they were called-were rented or
purchased in 1984. All without a single connection to the World
Wide Web. But while millions of Americans appreciated pornography,
their government didn’t. Three decades later, writes
Reason Senior Editor Peter Suderman, the crusade against
pornography continues.
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