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...Kansas, the legislature passed a law that makes retailers of pornography responsible for the content of what they sell. The legislature also expanded a law prohibiting "sexual exploitation of a child" (previously defined as under 16, now under 18) and outlawed possession of "kiddie porn" materials. Another measure this year banned vibrators, artificial vaginas and any device primarily used for the "stimulation of human genital organs...
...been crystallized by the completion of a government-sponsored study that was initially dismissed as a small sop to Reagan's New Right constituency. After hearing testimony in half a dozen cities on topics ranging from sex with fish to baroque forms of bondage, making three field trips to porn shops like Mr. Peepers in Houston, and spending $500,000, the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography issued a two-volume, 1960-page report. In ceremoniously accepting it from Chairman Henry Hudson at a Justice Department news conference, Meese seemed both proud and sheepish as he stood before a seminaked...
...make it easier to seize the assets of those involved in the trade. It also proposed that Congress enact unfair-labor-practice laws to be used against producers who pay performers in pornographic films. The Federal Communications Commission, it said, should restrict pornographic cable television shows and "Dial-a-Porn" telephone services. It also recommended that peep-show booths not be equipped with doors, so that the occupants can be clearly seen, thereby discouraging sexual activity...
...commission placed a special emphasis on the problem of child pornography, which it says has undergone the greatest growth since the 1970 commission. To combat what it calls the rise of the "kiddie-porn industry," the commission proposed that the knowing possession of child pornography be considered a felony...
...point the Meese commission is fully in tune with most Americans: both consider pornography a worrisome problem. A poll taken for Time by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that nearly two-thirds of the respondents* are "very" or "fairly concerned" about the pervasiveness of pornography in the U.S. Not surprisingly, porn is much more troubling to women than to men; precisely half of all women said they were "very concerned," while only 27% of men were similarly bothered. Overall, the proportion of people who want the government to crack down harder on pornography has varied only slightly since Yankelovich first asked...