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...runaway bestseller even before the first copy was up for sale. The book: the long-awaited Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, compiled after three years of research, investigation and learned pondering by a group of 15 prominent Britons headed by Sir John Wolfenden, 51, Vice-Chancellor of Reading University. The first printing of 5,000 copies was sold out within a few hours, and Her Majesty's printers quickly got to work on a second printing...
...that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which found the report "thorough, courageous and liberal," and a Roman Catholic spokesman who said that the Wolfenden committee's recommendations were "only acceptance of the fact that the community should not, in general, pry into a citizen's private deeds-even when they are misdeeds...
High Visibility. The Wolfenden committee's proposals on prostitution were less radical, as if the best that could be expected was to make the whores less visible. The committee warned against "too rigorous" a prosecution against women who loitered in pubs, on the grounds that this would only drive more of them onto the streets. The London Times agreed that "it would be wrong to punish the prostitute for being a prostitute," and the Spectator recalled Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong...
...help sweep the prostitutes off the streets, the Wolfenden Report recommends that maximum penalties be increased to a ?10 fine for a first offense, ?25 the second time around, and a three-month jail sentence on a third arrest. The present ?2 ($5.60) fine even for repeated offenders has prevailed for more than a century, and is regarded by many prostitutes as a license: they keep their receipts to show bobbies that they have been run in recently. Said Probation Official Frank Dawtry: "I don't think increasing the penalty is going to have much effect-a girl will...
SILVER LINING. J. W. Wolfenden Corp., Attleboro, Mass., offered a new silverware which is kept tarnish-proof by a coating baked on the silver. Price: 10% above regular sterlingware...