Word: porn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chamber is spurring a campaign to lure legitimate business back to Sunset Strip and close down porn establishments. One of its favorite techniques: to ask the city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy...
Reformers claim much of the credit for the departure since 1975 of 60% of more than 150 porn shops, X-rated moviehouses and bars that had sprouted on Hollywood's main streets. This week the Los Angeles city council is expected to vote on a temporary measure banning "adult" entertainment enterprises within 500 ft. of a church-or 1,000 ft. of each other. After four months the council would then vote on whether to adopt the measure on a permanent basis...
Playboy's announced decision to give up those readers primarily interested in porn [July 4] is hardly the same as not staying in touch with society's "shifting sexual standards." In response to the more personal part of TIME'S patronizing putdown ("surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite"), I can only say that Contributor Thomas Griffith obviously has his own very personal definition of "square." Oh to be as hip as you swinging newsmagazine men in New York...
...kiddie porn is so successful, it is because millions of Americans want it, seek it out, pay for it. Let's try to find what it is that creates the taste for kiddie porn and then seek a psychological solution of some kind for the customers...
...huge erotic painting. He has one of L.A.'s most extensive collections of pornography. Perched atop a ridge, Mayall's $230,000 house has a Tudor-style living room festooned with saddles and snakeskins. But Hogarth prints lead up winding stairs to a large alphabetized porn library...