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Or, put differently, one's views of sexual harassment are inevitably intertwined with one's views of “healthy sexuality,” and, as others have pointed out, the current debate has been framed by the largely puritanical segment of the women's movement.
As writer-actor Harry Shearer (who spoke later on a panel on comedy) pointed out, "The thing that is rarely mentioned is that because this is a puritanical society and you can't show sex, we eroticize violence.
How did our culture get mired in this puritanical paradox?
American television is generally much more puritanical than Britain's in reediting films for transmission.
Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”