THE PORNOGRAPHIC STATE
From Symposium: Changing Images of the State

Ronald K.L. Collins
Freelance writer and law professor, Takoma Park, MD.

David M. Skover
Professor, Seattle University Law School.
 

Copyright © 1994 by The Harvard Law Review Association; Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover.

Originally published in the Harvard Law Review, April 1994, Vol. 107, No. 6, pp. 1374 - 1399.

This is the latest installment of a much longer work in progress, entitled The Death of Discourse. The initial installment, The First Amendment in an Age of Paratroopers, appeared in 68 Tex. L. Rev. 1087 (1990). The second installment, Commerce and Communication, appeared in 71 Tex. L. Rev. 697 (1993). Two other installments are Paratexts, 44 Stan. L. Rev.. 509 (1992), and Pissing in the Snow: A Cultural Approach to the First Amendment, 45 Stan L. Rev. 783 (1993, reviewing JAMES B. TWITCHELL, CARNIVAL CULTURE: THE TRASHING OF TASTE IN AMERICA (1992)).

We are grateful to a number of our friends and colleagues for their thoughtful, and sometimes critical, written comments: Janet Ainsworth, Jerome Barron, David Boerner, Robert Chang, Kenneth Masters, John Mitchell, Larry Mitchell, Sean O'Reilly, Chris Rideout, Suzanne Singer, and Kellye Testy. We are deeply indebted to former Dean James Bond of the University of Puget Sound School of Law for his generous support of our project.