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...must say a few words on the hypocrisy that has led to the conviction of Ralph Ginzburg [June 21]. The chief criticism of Eros, from its inception, was that most of its material could be found and viewed and read in the public library and public museum. Why then so much fuss...
...RALPH GINZBURG Editor & Publisher Eros New York City
...Government began keeping an eye on Eros after 25,000 letters poured into the Postmaster General's Office complaining about the magazine's oversexed promotional pamphlets. Ginzburg "used every publicity gimmick in the book to almost force us to ban it," said one official, even down to mailing the magazines from towns like Intercourse, Pa., Middlesex, N.J., and Blueballs, Pa. Finally the Justice Department haled Ginzburg into the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on 28 counts of mailing obscene matter-the winter issue of Eros, a newsletter of current events on the sex front called Liaison...
...Ginzburg marshaled 65 psychologists, sexologists and assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar...
Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Shane Creamer found the publications worse than that. They are "patently offensive" and "go beyond the customary limits that society tolerates," said he. Judge Ralph C. Body apparently agreed. Last week the judge convicted Ginzburg on all 28 counts-leaving the publisher liable to fines as high as $140,000 and 140 years in prison when he is sentenced, sometime in the next few weeks...