sensual. Then bumping and grinding away, accompanied by passionate moans and wild braying. You’ ve never seen a sight like this, | promise. And then the camera panned slowly toward the audience . . . and the audience consisted entirely of donkeys." The Senate office shook with raucous laughter, especially that of Judge Thomas. His booming guffaws rang like huge gongs in a church belfry. And, | must admit, | had to suppress my own laughter. | had been totally caught by surprise, but | appreciated getting the insight. Homo sapiens is, in reality, the only species that has a need for pornography. When the group’ s laughter finally began to simmer down, Senator Hatch said, “Il suppose that movie was one of the demands of the animal rights people.” “That’ s correct,” Senator Simpson added. “Saving animals’ lives is no longer enough. They need cu/ture." | felt like | was imprisoned in the boys’ locker room, but | was getting ready to force myself to leave anyway, and it would have ended right there for me if the subject matter hadn’ t returned to Anita Hill. “I’ m glad nobody considered calling Aer to testify against me, even for a closed-door session,” Judge Thomas said. “But you fellas will really love this. Anita Hill was a very opinionated young lady. Actually, she HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015134