Every tyrant knows that if he can control human sexuality he can control life

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Recent history teaches us that most tyrannies have a puritanical nature. The sexual restrictions of Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany and Mao's China would have gladdened the hearts of those Americans who fear sexual images and literature. Their ironfisted puritanism wasn't motivated by a need to erase inequality. They wanted to smother the personal chaos that can accompany sexual freedom and subordinate it to the granite face of the state. Every tyrant knows that if he can control human sexuality, he can control life.

source: Article 'Women on the Verge of a Legal Breakdown' by Pete Hamill; Playboy; Quote from the book 'Porn Panic! - Sex and Censorship in the UK' by Jerry Barnett; Zero Books; Winchester, UK / Washington, USA; 2016; Playboy from: January 1993