President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
- President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
A 1968 United States Supreme Court decision which held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes caused the United States Congress to fund the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson to study pornography.
The commission's report, called "Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography", and published in 1970, recommended sex education, funding of research into the effects of pornography and restriction of children's access to pornography, and recommended against any restrictions for adults. The report was widely criticized and rejected by Congress.
In an example of détournement, Earl Kemp published an illustrated edition of the "Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography" in 1970 through a publishing company owned by William Hamling called Greenleaf Classics. Kemp and Hamling were eventually sentenced to one year in prison for "conspiracy to mail obscene material," but both served only the federal minimum of three months and one day. ["An Interview with Earl Kemp of Greenleaf Classics" by Michael Hemmingson, "Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties" edited by Brittany A. Daley, Hedi El Kholti, Earl Kemp, Miriam Linna, and Adam Parfrey. Feral House, 2004. page 36.] ["Freedom of the Press: A Bibliocyclopedia : Ten-year Supplement (1967-1977)" by Ralph Edward McCoy, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979, page 163.]
See also
* Attorney General's Commission on Pornography aka the Meese Report, published in 1986
* Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
* [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2759 President Nixon's Statement on the report]
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