Playbill

August, 1986

About a year ago, Attorney General Edwin Meese formed a commission, ostensibly to find out whether or not pornography caused child abuse and other crimes. On the basis of its findings, the commission would make legislative proposals to Congress concerning the possible regulation of porn. In 1970, a President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography had advised that porn without violence posed no threat to society. But since then, militant feminists and religious fundamentalists have formed an a...