Word: porn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These and a host of other equally shocking products are becoming increasingly common fare at porn shops and sex-oriented mail-order houses across the nation. They are part of the newest growth area pushed by the booming, billion-dollar pornography industry: child porn...
...films this summer, and I've become a raving banshee over it," says Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, a Manhattan psychiatrist who has been barnstorming around the country in a crusade against this abuse of minors. Her effort is only one part of a new campaign against child porn. New York City has cracked down, and police have at least temporarily forced kiddy-sex periodicals and films out of the tawdry Times Square area. Some twenty states are considering child-porn laws. Last week the Illinois house of representatives approved a bill setting stiff penalties for producing and selling child...
...Child porn is hardly new, but according to police in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, sales began to surge a year or two ago and are still climbing. Years ago much child pornography was fake-young-looking women dressed as Lolitas. Now the use of real children is startlingly common. Cook County State's Attorney Bernard Carey says porno pictures of children as young as five and six are now generally available throughout Chicago. Adds Richard Kopeikin, a state's attorney investigator: "They are even spreading to the suburbs, where they are now considered rare items, delicacies...
...Francisco hard-core child-porn films were shown in a moviehouse for five weeks before police seized the films last February. Even San Francisco's Mitchell brothers, the national porn-film kings, were outraged. Says Brother Jimmy: "We think obscenity laws should start with child porn...
Until recently, much child porn sold in America was smuggled in from abroad. Now most of it appears to be home grown, with the steady stream of bewildered, broke runaways serving as a ready pool of "acting talent" for photographers. Pornographers who stalk children at big-city bus stations find many victims eager to pose for $5 or $10-or simply for a meal and a friendly word. Says Lloyd Martin, head of the Los Angeles police department's sexually abused child unit: "Sometimes for the price of an ice-cream cone a kid of eight will pose...