Word: lewdness
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...entreporneurs of Grove Press have at last struck real pay dirt, the anti-Comstock lode of lewd literature. It should make queasy readers reach for their Turns, which as everybody knows, is smut spelled backward...
Blatant Display. Shearer & Co. not only claim that U.S. smut peddlers now gross $2 billion a year, but they calculate that "about 60% of the lewd paperbacks and magazines circulating today in the U.S. are published by California firms," three-quarters of whose products "fall into the hands of teenagers under 18." In January, for example, Los Angeles Publisher Milton J. Luros (estimated annual sales: $6 million) and eight associates were convicted on 147 counts of violating anti-obscenity laws by deluging Iowa with six smutty paperbacks and 14 nudist magazines. Although 250 obscenity cases are now pending in California...
...began buzzing the beach. Then one outraged parent claimed that his 14-year-old daughter had been persuaded to disrobe in public while visiting San Gregorio with another family. The father tried to press charges, but the county district attorney's office ruled that the incident constituted neither lewd nor obscene conduct, and the case never made it to court. Nonetheless, the publicity put San Gregorio...
...sexual activity." After playing their parts, Candy and Lori became suspicious about Klor's plans for the films, and they called the cops. Three officers entered Klor's home under authority of an arrest warrant charging him with an overdue parking ticket, then asked to see his "lewd" films. Klor willingly displayed his motion pictures, but wisely stated: "These are not ready for distribution through the mail. They need to be edited...
...scrambled eggs in the head. Are double-entendres in music new? Old songs like All or Nothing at All, All the Way and Come Fly with Me couldn't pass a purity test. Was Kern a dirty old man when he wrote Easy to Love! Was Hammerstein thinking lewd thoughts as he penned I'm Just a Girl...