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...says the recorded female voice on the telephone. "Come and join us nasty sluts in 6,900 kinky taboos." This is dial-a-porn, sex over the phone wires, now as available in many states as the correct time. For a cost that can range from 20 cents to several dollars, callers can listen to recorded fantasies, some of them merely purple, some filled with the darker colors of sadomasochism, rape and bestiality. Since they first appeared in 1983, the dial-a-porn services have grown quickly. So has the frustration of parents who discover that their children have become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reach Out and Touch Someone | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

That frustration is leading to angry action. One day last June in Hayward, Calif., Brian Thompson, 12, spent more than two hours listening to dial-a-porn recitals. Two weeks later he sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl. The parents of both children joined in suing the Pacific Bell telephone company for $10 million, charging that dial-a-porn was responsible. "The phone company and the pornographers took away from us our rights as parents to train our child in what is right and wrong," says Brian's father Ronald Thompson. "You can't police your kids 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reach Out and Touch Someone | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Another assault on phone porn came last week from the Federal Communications Commission. In its first such action, the FCC began moving against two California companies it believes are violating its regulations limiting the access of minors to dial-a-porn messages. Those rules, which many porn services ignore, seek to make it necessary for callers to use a credit card or a special access code. The targeted California companies could eventually face fines of up to $50,000 a day and criminal prosecution. Critics charge that antiregulatory zeal has hitherto led the FCC to take a laissez-faire approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Reach Out and Touch Someone | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...professor said that the decision to make the arrest came from the District Attorney's Office, and that Harvard does not have a porn policy similar to the one that the COD just overruled...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: A Younger Dershowitz Argues Porn Case | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Dershowitz showed the porn film Deep Throat to a registration day audience last February in an attack on the pornography policy, which prohibits the presentation of sexually explicit films on registration...

Author: By Lisa J. Goodall, | Title: A Younger Dershowitz Argues Porn Case | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

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