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...York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should be better control over what children can see or hear, and we should keep porn out of public view," he says. Adds University of California Psychologist Jay Mann, who generally sees no harm in porn: "Privacy is just as important as the right to such materials...
Hentoff, however, is a First Amendment absolutist. Many would consider censoring a movie if harm could be proved, either to the user, or to the larger society. Though the two main concerns about pornography?its effect on the user, its impingement on the rest of society?often merge, they need to be considered separately...
Such allegations of harm were laboriously investigated by the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. After two years of study and ten volumes of research, in 1970 it reported "no substantial basis" for the belief that exposure to erotica causes sex crimes or bad moral character. Yet the commission's ten volumes hardly settled the matter. Says Herbert Abelson, president of the Response Analysis Corporation in Princeton: "You can use studies to demonstrate whatever you want." Harvard Political Scientist James Q. Wilson argues that the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence decided television violence was dangerous, with...
...largely created, he says, "by the most intelligent, erudite and cultured people in the society" and was a source of pleasure and lively delight. Unlike American porn, it was not "cheaply and badly done, solely to make a buck." And, argues Bowersock, contrary to popular legend, pornography did no harm whatever to the culture of ancient Greece. The most that can be said of ancient Rome, according to Jeffrey Henderson, Yale assistant professor of classics, is that pornography was clearly associated with the empire's decline, but as a consequence and not a cause...
...Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, a Sacramento suburb, on April 21, 1975. During the robbery, one woman was killed. Said Carter: "If you talk about banks in the Sacramento area, it seems to me it is raising the flag of the homicide question." And that, he felt, might unfairly harm Patty's case in the minds of the jurors...