and the laws against the pornographers are repealed, we will witness

complete moral anarchy in this country that will soon spread to the entire

free world.

Effects of Pornography

We should begin by saying the law is clear. The law founded in reason and common sense recognizes obscenity as intrinsically evil and does not demand the "clear and present danger" test so ardently advocated by Chairman Lockhart and the American Civil Liberties Union. The law rather, proscribes pornography on the basis of the public good--protecting public health and welfare, public decency, and morality, a condition absolutely essential to the well-being of the nation.

Almost immediately after my appointment to the Commission,

I wrote Chairman Lockhart a letter memorandum regarding statistical study of the relationship of obscenity to crime and other antisocial behavior, which is attached hereto as Exhibit "C". I urge you to carefully read Exhibit "C". [which was ignored by Chairman Lockhart and the Effects Panel of the Commission]

When my right to dissent was obtained in Court, included was

the right theretofore denied me to file certain "Technical Reports" in the Commission's "books of Technical Reports which are to be prepared and printed later". Accordingly, I will submit for such printing certain items bearing upon effects of pornography, including pertinent excerpts

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from a report prepared for California Senator John L. Harmer, dated

May, 1970, and entitled "Obscenity and Pornography in Los Angeles
County".

Additionally, in the "technical" reporting, I will incorporate
some excellent information and data by Melvin Anchell, M. D.,
Max Levin, M. D., Victor Cline, Ph.D., and others.

An excellent article was recently forwarded to me by Be rnard L.
Bonniwell, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Villanova University,
Villanova, Pennsylvania, entitled "The Pornographic Environment and
Human Behavior". Same is attached hereto as Exhibit "D".

In the Effects Panel stampede for a "Danish Solution", I noticed

in one of their studies a quotation from a young girl interviewed at the
"Porno-Fair" in Denmark (regarding the Fair):

There is a complete lack of every kind of affection and
solicitude for the other part. They avoid everything

human and pleasant.

A natural objective for the true scientist, it seems to me, would be

to investigate what pornography does to woman, what pornography really is--a despicable thing, a devilish thing, so poignantly brought home to the human heart in the above quotation.

Who, for example, has referred to, investigated, or even discussed in passing the fact that Denmark today is, for all practical purposes, devoid of religion or religious influence. God is gone from the hearts,

the minds, and the souls of the people of Denmark. Does this fact not play a significant role in the willingness of the government officials and citizens of that country to accept the legalized degredation for which they are now internationally notorious.

Denmark has a total population of 4,700,000. The "Danish

experiment" has only been going on for an extremely short period of time
in the history of Man. Shouldn't there at least be some discussion or
consideration of whether or not such facts should be the "Pied Piper"
for Americans to the extent that this Commission recommends abolition

of all obscenity laws in the United States?

And there are many misconceptions regarding Denmark. While

I hesitate to refer to a salacious and lewd magazine such as "Playboy"
[which is the precursor of immorality and decadence in the United
States. Nevertheless, in a recent article entitled "Pornography and the
Unmelancholy Danes", they made the following observations regarding

Denmark:

"At ordinary newsstands on perfectly normal street
corners, you can buy pictures of laughing girls with
semen all over their faces."

"...the Christian church...came very late to Denmark
and never achieved rigid political or social control."

"...two widely and wistfully believed untruths.--
They are that after the first surge of curiousity it
becomes very difficult to sell (Pornography). The
second is that porno is sold only--or mostly--to
tourists. These notions seemed almost plausible
before the celebrated Copenhagen Pornography Fair."

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"It is considered normal that teenagers get into bed
with each other."

"(A) widely used sex manual both boys and girls had
studied in school begins with a statement, 'This
book has a moral; namely, that it should be every
human being's right to satisfy his sexual needs,
regardless of age or sex..., he can choose any
way of expressing this need.'"

"So it isn't true that the porno business is dying...
Business has never been better. People who think it
is dying are misled because they see the amateurs
dropping out. There are between 200 and 300 firms
of various sizes making porno in Copenhagen alone."

As Marcellus said in Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the

State of Denmark".

One can consult all the experts he chooses, can write reports, make studies, etc., but the fact that obscenity corrupts lies within the common sense, the reason, and the logic of every man.

St. Paul, looking upon a society in his time such as ours is

becoming today wrote:

They had exchanged God's truth for lie, reverencing
and worshipping the creature in preference to the
Creator... and, in return, God abandoned them
to passions which brought dishonour to themselves.
Their women exchanged natural for unnatural inter-
course; and the men, on their side, giving up natural
intercourse with women, were burnt up with desire for
each other; men practicing vileness with their fellow-
men. Thus they have received a fitting retribution for
their false belief.

And as they scorned to keep God in view, so God has
abandoned them to a frame of mind worthy of all
scorn, that prompts them to disgraceful acts. They
are versed in every kind of injustice, knavery, impurity,

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avarice, and ill-will; spiteful, murderous,
contentious, deceitful, depraved, backbiters,
slanderers, God's enemies; insolent, haughty,
vainglorious; inventive in wickedness, dis-

obedient to their parents; without prudence, without
honour, without love, without loyalty, without

pity.

If man is affected by his environment, by circumstances of his life, by reading, by instruction, by anything, he is then certainly affected by pornography. The mere nature of pornography makes it impossible for pornography to effect good. Therefore, it must necessarily

effect evil. Sexual immorality, more than any other causitive factor, historically speaking, is the root cause of the demise of all great nations and all great peoples. (Ref. Toynbee: Moral decay from within destroyed most of the world's great civilizations.)

Pertinent commentaries rebutting the Effects Panel Report

are attached hereto as Exhibits "E" and "F", i.e. "Pornography Report"

by Dr. Natalie Shainess and the September 6, 1970, letter of Walter S.

The Commission majority bases their recommended repeal of all federal and state laws that prohibit consensual distribution of sexual material to adults" on the statement that "extensive empirical investigation, both by the Commission and by others, provides no evidence that exposure to or use of explicit sexual materials play a significant role in the causation of social or individual harms such as crime, delinquency, sexual or non sexual

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