Nothing that I say here will challenge efforts to reduce government interference with sexual liberty, nor will I explore the question of what, concretely, sexual liberty should be understood to be. In free and less free countries, those who insist on the protection of sexual liberty (in such domains as prostitution and pornography) often claim to be political dissidents, or close cousins of political dissidents, and urge that they deserve the same degree of respect accorded to those who attempt to topple a politically repressive regime. On this view, it is no accident that authoritarian nations-Afghanistan under the Taliban, for example, or communist China-are concerned both to crush dissent and to suppress sexual liberty. Many people seem to share Orwell’s belief that political totalitarian and sexual repression march hand in hand, both logically and empirically.
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