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Last week's reverberations of the Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett obscenity trial (TIME...
...Margaret Sanger's recent visit to Cambridge recalls attention to a controversy which has had much prominence in the past few weeks. Almost simultaneously occured the raid on Mrs. Sanger's Birth Control Clinic in New York and the conviction of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett for publishing a pamphlet simplifying sex problems for young people. Although in certain matters the police overstepped their authority in the clinic raid both actions were for the most part legal under the present statutes...
Sirs: In your issue of May 6, page 18, you say regarding the trial of Mary Ware Dennett: ''John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0 'guilty...
What the Pamphlet Told. In her pamphlet Mrs. Dennett advised youths "to understand the wonderful sex organs, that are different in men and women, what each part is for and how it works." She described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love...
Sentence. Judge Burrows decreed a fine of $300. Mrs. Dennett said she would go to jail sooner than pay it. Her friends planned to give her pamphlet to President Hoover, asked help...