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→Pornography: I firmly believe that Fanny Hill is a moral, rather than an immoral, piece of literature.
==Pornography==
==Pornography==
Douglas justified a famous work of pornography <ref>''Fanny Hill'' ... the thoughts and experiences of a common prostitute [http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/index.asp?document=51] </ref> as "more significant and moral" than Rev. [[Norman Vincent Peale]]'s ''Sin, Sex and Self-Control''. Douglas describes the two books in terms of [[moral equivalence]]:
Douglas justified a famous work of pornography <ref>''Fanny Hill'' ... the thoughts and experiences of a common prostitute [http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/index.asp?document=51] </ref> as "more significant and moral"
<ref>…I firmly believe that ''Fanny Hill'' is a moral, rather than an immoral, piece of literature. In fact, I will go as far as to suggest that it represents a more significant view of morality than is represented by Dr. Peale’s book Sin, Sex and Self-Control.</ref>
than Rev. [[Norman Vincent Peale]]'s ''Sin, Sex and Self-Control''. Douglas describes the two books in terms of [[moral equivalence]]:
:The search for the moral in Fanny Hill is clothed in erotic passages which seem to equate morality with debauchery as far as the general public is concerned. At the same time, Dr. Peale’s book is punctuated with such noble terms as "truth," "love," and "honesty."
:The search for the moral in Fanny Hill is clothed in erotic passages which seem to equate morality with debauchery as far as the general public is concerned. At the same time, Dr. Peale’s book is punctuated with such noble terms as "truth," "love," and "honesty."
==Notes==
==Notes==