‘Dull’ magazine restricted

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 3

‘Dull’ magazine restricted

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, November 26. A Lincoln College students’ magazine was today classed as indecent in the hands of persons under 16.

Announcing the decision of the Indecent Publications Tribunal, the chairman (Mr R. S. V. Simpson), said the magazine “Pizzle Rot,” was '“informed only by a desire to shock.”

The magazine was submitted to the tribunal in July. Mr Simpson described it as “flat, dull, and unoriginal . . . Such a childish effusion does not merit more serious attention than graffiti on the walls of public lavatories.

“It represents a kind of self-expression most people leave behind before their undergraduate days. The paper is disgusting and unpleasant, but we do not con-

i sider it harmful. Most people’s reaction to it, if it affected them at all, would be one of contempt.” The tribunal classified two books as indecent: “Lesbian Secrets,” by Evelyn Theodor, and “The Scandal Goddess,” by William Hegner.

Two books were found to be indecent in the hands of persons under 18—“ The New Female Sexuality,” by Manfred F. de Martino, and “Acts of Love,” by Dr Jan Berghoff. “Confessions of a Window Cleaner,” by Timothy Lea, and “Sex Manners for Single Girls,” by Dr Georges Valensin, were classified as indecent in the hands of persons under 16.