Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Anything Goes: Taboos in Twilight

An unsigned Newsweek article on sexual permissiveness in the media; Mailer is quoted at length on obscenity as "the only metaphor to express the situation that produces Vietnam."

A long article by an unidentified writer on sexual permissiveness in the media, “a Babylonian age.” Mailer is quoted at length: the obscenity in Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15) was unavoidable because obscenity “is the only metaphor to express the situation that produces Vietnam.”

First published: 1967-11-13
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 67.19a
Cite as: /works/1967-11-13-anything-goes-taboos-in-twilight
Last updated: 2026-05-30