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The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power QUOTES

The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power QUOTES

1 " One feature of sexual politics is the almost complete absence of critical scholarship that approaches it from any viewpoint other than enthusiastic advocacy. Ostensibly objective scholars are often active participants and promoters of the phenomenon they should be studying and understanding critically. Scholars who refrain from endorsing sexual liberation and insist on analyzing these subjects from a detached perspective find it almost impossible to publish their work and are quickly driven from the universities. “Some subjects are not only undebatable; they are unresearchable,” writes Phyllis Schlafly, “because they don’t want the public to know the facts that research might uncover.” 4 The fact is that the Western academic world today is not an “open society” of free inquiry and critical thinking. It is largely closed, inbred, and controlled by heresy-hunters who vet scholarship according to a litmus test of political doctrine and punish heterodoxy with ostracism. "

― Stephen Baskerville , The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power