In Susan Jacoby’s essay, First Amendment Junkie, she discusses issues regarding censorship, pornography, the first amendment, and the involvement of feminism on these issues. She first introduces the reader to a court case involving Larry Flynt, the publisher of a pornographic magazine, who was convicted for trying to distribute a pornographic film. Jacoby later goes on to discuss and point out how feminists tend to attack the issue of pornography more than any other issue that greatly offends other groups of people. She also states that most of the people that want to censor erotica magazines and material are equally opposed to having open discussions in regards to other vital issues regarding women such as abortion, rape, contraception, or lesbianism. Near…show more content… The authors later go on to reveal that they are in support of letting the public view the executions, so that they can decide whether or not to continue supporting the death sentence. The authors later refer to a case where an inmate that was executed jerked his head, convulsed, gasped, and struggled through the execution based on what was gathered from a medical expert’s affidavit. From there the authors go on to discuss how cameras are allowed to record legislative sessions, political debates, courtroom trials, and interrogations. Afterwards, it is revealed that opponents to televised executions have stated that although televising the executions would initially stir debates among sides, eventually the general public would become numb to them and they would eventually start to equate them with putting down a dangerous animal. Towards the end, the authors point out that the main opposition towards public executions comes from an unthinking disgust
