Why Censorship Is Dangerous (Part 1)

       In  April 1954 phychiatrist Dr. Fredrick Wethram wrote a landmark book attacking Comic Books called Seduction of the Innocent.  The book is perhaps one of the most evil books of the twentieth century on par with Mein Kampf.  The reason the book is so evil is it argues comics are full. of sex and violence and a corrupting influence on young children. and young teenagers. Why let young impretionable children read comics when they can do other things is an old arguement. People still do that today with comics still and video games as well as with violent movies. More or the argument had to do with assumptions and generalisations which is never good. A good facist allways generalizes as well.  Wonder Woman which had improper imagery which looked like bondage. Now allthough her creator Harvard phyckiatrist William Moulton Mouston had also invented DISC Theory which was feminist the bondage in Wonder Woman was just innocent. I think the attack was just an attack on  another phyckiatrist who was more popular and on the other side with comic books.  He also accused Wonder Woman of being a lesbian and described in detail how Amazons and the femenistic situatons in Wonder Woman was lesbian. He was a Reverse Femenist. Batman and Robin he accused homosexual too and they were in a gay relationship.  Superman was a Nazi. Despite being created by two Jews from Cleveland Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster. Even monster comics were corrupting. Wethram just hated them all and people listened.Wethrams's book ignited a national craze against comics. Churches and local leaders attacked them. Tommorow I will talk about the. national craze against comics.