Four-Letter Words: Why Jews Have Led the Making and Defense of Obscenity in America

Published: Dec. 2, 2013, 4 a.m.

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A warning to listeners: This episode of Vox Tablet contains explicit language and content you wouldn\'t normally hear on our podcast. To censor such language, offensive as it may be, felt contrary to the spirit of Lambert\'s argument, which posits a connection between \\u201cobscenity\\u201d and Jewish culture and continuity.

Jews are oversexed. That\\u2019s a long-held stereotype. And, like most stereotypes, it\\u2019s baloney. What is true, however, is that Jews in America have been fighters on the front lines in producing, distributing, and defending sexually explicit materials for more than a century.

Josh Lambert, a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and a Tablet contributing editor, addresses why that has...


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