In June, 1990, the Kenyon Review was awarded a $7,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, applied for some months earlier. The General Terms and Conditions for the acceptance of this grant included, as they never had before, this paragraph:
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated for the National Endowment for the Arts … may be used to promote, disseminate, or produce materials which in the judgment of the National Endowment for the Arts … may be considered obscene, including but not limited to, depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts and which, when taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
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