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Conduct, Not Content. The evidence failed to show that he had even planned to, ruled California's highest court as it reversed Klor's conviction. Basing its reasoning in large part on the Supreme Court decision affirming Eros Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's five-year federal sentence for sending obscene matter through the mails, the California Supreme Court held that obscenity cases should turn more on the objective conduct of the defendant than on a judge or jury's subjective opinion about the content of his product...
...momentary) nudity has occurred onstage in Marat/Sade and in a "happening" at Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church playhouse, in which a nude couple was seen slowly crossing the stage clasped in each other's arms. As for literature, even though the Supreme Court decision on Publisher Ralph Ginzburg and Eros suggests a reassertion of older standards (TIME, April 1), nearly every drugstore or bookshop is loaded with hard-core pornography, much of it solemnly reviewed by serious critics...
Moving on to the Ginzberg case, and adopting a rare tone of seriousness, Krassner questioned Ginzburg's deliberate sensationalizing, just as the court had done, but contested the court's decision, based on exploitation and "vulgar promotionalism...
...Eager to rejoice in the Supreme Court's apparent step backward toward your own smug preference for guarding society from "smut peddlers," [April 1] you neglect to criticize the Ginzburg case for its deviation from the legal distinction between direct and hearsay evidence: is obscenity now to be defined by examining not the product itself but how the salesman touts it? If indeed Americans so desperately need guidance that censorship is necessary, let our mentors at least concern themselves with the contents of the allegedly pornographic package instead of its wrapping...
Justice Brennan refused to endorse the trial judge's ringing condemnation of all three Ginzburg products as themselves obscene and "a gross shock to the mind." Instead, Brennan nailed Ginzburg for salacious sales pitches. In one Eros brochure, he blatantly promised articles on "Incest in the American Midwest," "Was Shakespeare a Homosexual?" and "Sex in the Supermarket." Before Ginzburg acquired Handbook, its author, "Rey Anthony," printed it privately, sold 12,000 copies to assorted therapists, several of whom had testified at the trial that it proved useful in professional practice. Ginzburg's companies, said Brennan, went beyond this...