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...Bearing heraldic arms; an authority on beards; turning sour; a handbook; government...
...issue in the Ginzburg case were Eros, whose chef-d'oeuvre in the disputed edition was a color portfolio of a white woman and Negro man, both naked, in multiple embraces; Liaison, a sex-front "newsletter" that was a compendium of sex jokes; and The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, a Tucson woman's clinical account of her increased pleasure with unconventional sex techniques...
...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 "neutral environment" and "deliberately emphasized the sexually provocative aspects of the work in order...
...looks to me as though we're in trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. Ginzburg's Lawyer Sidney Dickstein argued that the court could find "social importance" merely by reading the testimony of assorted literary eminences. While conceding that Liaison was "vulgar" and "sophomoric" ("But that's no reason to put a man in jail"), Dickstein called Handbook "useful...
Government Lawyer Paul Bender, on the other hand, pointed to unanimous lower court decisions that "these publications are obscene, filthy, vile, lewd and lascivious." Justice William O. Douglas asked Bender about a Baptist minister who had testified earlier that he used the Handbook in "counseling." The lower court, said Bender, "either found he was lying-or that he wasn't a typical minister." When pressed further, though, Bender conceded that while Liaison is "a collection of dirty jokes," Ginzburg's other works are "borderline material." In short, he was saying that the Justices must read them...