Re: pedo in a speedo

I could be wrong, but I recall that at the beginning of Equinox, in 
the Rhinoceros edition, there's a note from the publishers saying 
that they were not comfortable with publishing a novel with 
pedophilic overtones so they (perhaps at Delany's suggestion?) added 
a hundred years to ever character under 18.  So at least by their 
own words they weren't just kowtowing to the Meese commission, and 
that would seem to be supported by the fact that the book was 
published two presidents after Reagan.   

Incidentally, a 2002 Supreme Court case established that there's an 
absolute constitutional prohibition on banning/criminalizing 
*depictions* of underage sex--at least until computer technology 
gets so good that the virtual pornography can be used as a cover for 
people using actual children in their photos/movies.  But at least 
until a few more Justices die, there's no way Delany's work could 
get him or his publisher in legal trouble.   

--- In [email protected], Steve M <lists@m...> wrote:
>
> At 3:15 PM +0100 12/31/05, henrik strömberg wrote:
> >  >  But he had clearly changed his mind by the time of the
> >>republication of... um... the book previously known as "The 
Tides of
> >>Lust", in which he added 100 years to some of the characters' 
ages to
> >>remove this factor.
> >
> >as i remember it, it was the publishers that requested that no 
minors
> >were to have sex in the book. that is why delany added 100 years 
to
> >their ages.
> 
> I believe that's true. It was in any case a 
> specific reaction to some new regulations that 
> had come from The Meese Commission on Pornography 
> under President Reagan but had not yet been 
> tested in court--and the solution was in part 
> chosen, I believe, to ridicule those regulations 
> without being one of the first test cases.
>






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