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Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky
Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard and Pforzheimer Foundation Director Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library
Politics

What Politicians Talk About When They Talk About Porn*

A Tableau™ Vivant

May 27, 2021 • by Martin Bernstein and Jane Kamensky
_____ In January 2018, when the intimate relationship between then-president Donald J. Trump and former adult film actress Stormy Daniels hit the headlines, it was easy to imagine that American society had reached Peak Porn, with privates and Public combining more vividly and directly than ever before. When the scandal broke, Jane ...
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