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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      5. But even during the Porn Wars, there was a minority position among conservatives, inflected by libertarianism & 18th century aristocratic libertinism, that was open to smut.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      6. In 1966, William F. Buckley lamented that Hugh Hefner's had a hedonistic ethic “to which such modern ‘conservatives’ as Ayn Rand seem fully to subscribe.” But it wasn't just Rand, but also many National Review writers.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      7. National Review had a strong contingent of writers who welcomed the breakdown of censorship & wrote literary erotica: D. Keith Mano, Guy Davenport, Theodore Sturgeon (NR's main reviewer of sci-fi in 1960s).

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      8. Here is National Review senior editor Jeffrey Hart, in a 1985 Partisan Review essay, extolling Playboy.pic.twitter.com/wT0ZQU6Zxn

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      9. Pro-porn conservatives won the day in part through technology (hard to roll back the internet) but also because patriarchy & porn work well together.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      10. With the rise of feminism & LGBT activism, conservatives started to look at Hefner & other smut merchants as upholder of traditional heteronormativity and gender norming.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      11. The Federalist: Hugh Hefner's "work celebrates the sexual complementarity that has bound men and women together since the dawn of time" Translation: porn is better than accepting trans people.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      12. As patriarchy is under fresh challenge, conservatives, including evangelical christians, are looking for allies where they can find them, including Trump's overt piggishness.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      13. The older conservatism was Patriarchy With the Mask of Chivalry. Women were promised protection in exchange for submission. Now the mask has come off.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      14. As I keep saying, Trump turns subtext into text. As against chivalry's mask he gives us raw male id: banging porn starts & boasting about size of his nuclear button.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

      15. Unlike National Review libertines, evangelical Christians haven't explicitly made their peace with porn. But they talk about it less than in 1980s & their revealed preference shows in their love of Trump.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

          16. Edmund Burke, 17900: "The age of chivalry is gone." Brother, you don't know the half of it. Trump is post-chivalric conservatism.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Jan 2018

          20. For more reflections on Trump & the rise of Porno-Conservatism, see here:https://newrepublic.com/article/146631/triumph-porn-social-conservatism …

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        1. joe peraino‏ @joeperainojr 17 Jan 2018
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          .... and their pornhub searches.

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        1. Aintropy‏ @Aintropy 17 Jan 2018
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          Why can't liberals appreciate the mature French approach to sex?

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        1. N B Beamer 🇺🇦Proud#AntifaMemberFightingGQPFascism‏ @shareitarie10 17 Jan 2018
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          As a former evangelical Christian I’ve never heard one say that porn adultery fornication etc weren’t sinful. Instead children were asked to promise purity till marriage & shamed if they didn’t. Maybe the televangelists & other National leaders preached something else.

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        1. Mark Hurty‏ @mdh 17 Jan 2018
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          I favor the term “radical religious fundamentalists” to evangelical christians when referring to that group of trump supporters.

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        1. tom hebert‏ @tominwindsor 17 Jan 2018
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          I remember reading somewhere that porn sites are very popular in the Bible belt states. The more that is the case, the weaker the denunciations will become, in the same way that divorce is no longer condemned vociferously.

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        1. 𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫  🌻  😷 💉 💉 💉 🎹 🐈 💐 ⚾ 🎬‏ @theresasmets 17 Jan 2018
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          I'm always confused about obsession evangelicals have with all things sexual. It occupies so much more of their brainspace than people who are just trying to live their lives.

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