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...spite of my belief in the First Amendment, the cover story on pornography [April 5] upset me greatly. The porn boom has reached levels that are totally antifemale, antifreedom, anti-love. The result: dehumanization...
What is unique about the modern West and particularly the U.S. is that porn cuts against the grain of so many traditional beliefs, and the explosion is taking place in a highly literate society with the technological means and marketing talent to disseminate it. It is that collision of culture and commerce that creates concern...
That raises the second critical question beyond porn's possible harm to users: the right to privacy of nonusers. To what extent can residents protect a community by zoning porn shops into one district or forbidding sex ads, leafleting and store-window displays? The First Amendment
...Mason City has five all-nude bars, a massage parlor, an adult movie-house and a porn bookstore. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman reports that the city's reaction falls "somewhere between resignation and benignity." As Editor Walk puts it, "Nobody's running up and down the streets throwing rocks." Ken Gutterman, 50, owner of Lock Photos, a camera shop, says: "I just accept it, but I've never been in one of those places in my life...
...this town." But Ray Randall, 48, holds a strongly felt, if minority view: "I think they should be run out of town." A 29-year-old restaurant owner, who declined to give his name, says he spends $200 or more a year on sex magazines at the local porn shop. Why? "It's entertainment." For better or for worse, porn is now a part of the Mason City scene...