Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. John S. Sumner, 94, for 35 years quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...
...constitute a conclusive argument against censorship, but they do underline one fact: no apparatus of censorship has ever been devised, or probably can be devised, subtle enough to assure the freedom of the arts or of ideas. Nor does the new freedom necessarily mean that the wave of smut will further engulf the nation. Denmark's experiment in legalizing pornography, for instance, by all accounts has resulted in a decline of the Danes' own interest in it, as well as in the number of reported minor crimes like exhibitionism...
...will undoubtedly face numerous legal challenges, the effect could be to drive smaller pornographers out of business and leave the field to a few large, computerized firms. Should that happen, of course, Americans might look forward to the day when the Justice Department could bring antitrust suits against smut conglomerates for cornering the market in filthy pictures...
...Army. And recently I did publicity pictures for the pollution bit. I drove way out into Virginia to an adorable little stream that was so polluted and foamy it looked like somebody had poured in a whole bottle of Tide." One of her latest projects is an assault on smut, prompted by a spate of pornography mailed to Daughter Marty. "I sent it to the Post Office Department and the Justice Department and quite a few people have been indicted...
...relatively new publishing houses as Los Angeles' Oxford Bindery and Manhattan's Olympia. San Diego's Greenleaf Classics churns out 36 titles a month, each with a 30,000 print order. "I have never lost money on a sex book," says Bill Hambling, Greenleafs chief. Many smut books are printed in regular union shops during the slack early-morning hours; shops sometimes charge five times as much to print hard-core porn as regular books...