LONDON, ENG. (THECOUNT) — Author Naomi Wolf said Friday that she plans to correct portions of her latest book after an embarrassing radio interview in which she was alerted, live on-air, to major errors contained within it.
Wolf, 56, was being interviewed by BBC Radio host, Matthew Sweet, on Thursday to discuss “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love,” in which she claims she found cases of “several dozen executions” of gay men accused of having sex with other men. Hold the phone..
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“Several dozen executions?” he asked, later adding: “I don’t think you’re right about this.”
Mr. Sweet said that was a mistake based on a misunderstanding of the legal term “death recorded.”
“It doesn’t mean that he was executed. It was a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon,” Mr. Sweet said. “I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened,” reports NYTimes.
After a pause, Ms. Wolf said, “Well, that’s a really important thing to investigate.”
A prominent author who has written several works of feminist and cultural criticism, Ms. Wolf is known for books such as “The Beauty Myth” and “Vagina: A New Biography.”
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Everyone listen to Naomi Wolf realize on live radio that the historical thesis of the book she's there to promote is based on her misunderstanding a legal term pic.twitter.com/a3tB77g3c1
— Edmund Hochreiter (@thymetikon) May 23, 2019