Publications Tribunal
Sir, —The case against pornography is not as weak as G. E. Macann would have us think. The reproductive instinct is strong: look at the world population; ask any Freudian. Pornography, would cash in on this characteristic so that the vociferous minority opposing censorship often has a vested interest. The damage done by pornography is not to be looked for in specific court convictions for murder, rape, or violence. Pornography creates a state of mind, a dreamworld fantasy which exhorts to distort sex and violence. More, specifically, this damage caused by the distortion of pornography is to be looked for in the legion of unhappy or broken marriages, in social environments with pseudo-sophistieation conducive to sky-rocketing illegitimacy and venereal disease. The happy family with a library full of pornography would be a rare phenomenon. —Yours, etc., D. A KERR. August 29,1967.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31461, 30 August 1967, Page 14
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