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Monday, May 8 THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Newsman Sander Vanocur stalks hedonists in their natural habitats from psychedelic San Francisco to swinging London, analyzing today's new morality-or lack thereof. Among the "consultants": Ralph Ginzburg and Hugh Hefner...
Standards for judging a book obscene became hopelessly confused when it was decided in Ginzburg v. U.S. that booksellers and distributors would be prosecuted for selling books that were "commercially exploited for the sake of prurient appeal, to the exclusion of all other values...
None of the obscenity cases promises to answer lower-court prayers for clarification of last term's Ginzburg decision. But two may clarify the doctrine of scienter (to know), the requirement that a smut seller must have "guilty knowledge" that his wares are obscene before he is criminally liable. In a New York case, Times Square Bookstore Clerk Robert Redrup was convicted of selling paperbacks titled Lust Pool and Shame Agent to a plainclothes cop who asked him why he sold such "garbage." Said Redrup: "There's worse stuff around." Redrup argues that his comment failed to prove...
...court called this construction "a gratuitous unconstitutional reach" that might well encourage lower courts to penalize "matter produced solely for the personal enjoyment of the creator." Construing Ginzburg, the court stressed: "No constitutionally punishable conduct appears in the case of an individual who prepares material for his own use" or who "intends to purge the material of any objectionable element before distributing or exhibiting it." To hold otherwise, the court said, "would pose grave technical difficulty for the unconventional artist" and "tend to suppress experimental productions that might become, in finished form, constitutionally protected communication...
...argument that Ginzburg himself has finally turned to. Last week a U.S. appellate court stayed his sentence for two months to allow him to hone a new appeal claiming he was not personally responsible for trying to mail his products from such "titillating" addresses as Intercourse, Pa. As Ginzburg now tells it, the mailing company he hired devised that ploy without his knowledge...