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was surprised to see Madonna's new book SEX at the top of
the best seller list the first week after it was published.
It certainly made me feel a little less guilty for purchasing
the photo journal as soon as I could. Reaction to my acquisition
was not at all benign. I felt like a common criminal, a
pervert or worse. Not since sneaking off to Minsky's burlesque
house at the age of thirteen or so had I felt the need for
sexual defensiveness.
The fantasy life of this quasi-cult heroine is subject to more careful analysis that what might have caused the S. & L. scandal. Our space-age society is still in its infancy concerning many facets of our sexual nature and behavior. Our lust for money, power, killing is so much more acceptable. A film can depict the slaughter of hundreds of people, the gorier the better, but show some frontal nudity in a love scene, (always the women, never the man) and the censors and film raters go beserk. The dispute over a picture's rating almost always guarantees a box office smash, just as the advance controversy about Madonna's book made it an instant best seller.
However, the Wachtler case is a reverse case scenario of the foregoing argument. It is understandable, maybe even acceptable, to many of us that the judge had an extra-marital love affair, but the extortion attempt and threats of violence against his former girlfriend has turned the public against him. So who can explain the rules; the exceptions? Ask Amy Fisher, Joey Buttafucco, Sol Wachtler, Joy Silverman, Madonna? Hey, who's the guy who won the election?
President-elect Clinton? Where would he be without Jennifer Flowers?
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