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[T]he foremost of the laws Nature decrees to me is to enjoy myself no matter at whose expense.
-- The Marquis de Sade from his political novel Juliette
"For more than five centuries," writes Atlantic Monthly investigative reporter Eric Schiosser in his new book Reefer Madness, "radical social movements [have] embraced pornography." From Renaissanceera humanists, to the leaders of the 18th-century "Enlightenment" (including the notorious Marquis de Sade), to the exponents of the San Francisco-based 1960s counterculture, pornography has been used to bring about "a profound shift in public attitudes toward sex, as religious influences gave way to secular ...