While the Calvin Klein ads may strike you as tasteless, creepy or simply hot, they are not sexual abuse or exploitation. Wildmon, however, demands that the Justice Department go through photographer Steven Meisel's files to see what else happened at the shooting of the commercials. Calvin Klein is the best thing that ever happened to the zealous and priggish Wildmon. The reverend wants the feds to go after every magazine that ran the print ads and go after every city that had the images plastered on the sides of its buses. In all of the coverage of this issue only a handful of columnists had the courage to describe the crusade as nonsense.
Child porn is a new form of redbaiting.
Since no one can seem to be for child porn, no one will rise to defend the accused. That which underwear conceals, it reveals. At some point, underwear ceases to be a tool of personal hygiene and becomes part of our erotic vocabulary. Cotton briefs become lingerie in sexual awakenings. He cannot admire, fantasize, express awe or warm his soul over nature's heat.