Newsfront

February, 1987

Canadian Porn PanicOttawa, Ontario--A report prepared by two social scientists for the Canadian justice department says that concern over pornography is based on emotion rather than fact and that there is no good evidence that porn harms adults or adversely affects their behavior. Professors H. B. McKay and D. J. Dolff said they had found "considerable evidence of conceptually cloudy thinking related to virtually every aspect of the work [on porn]. The literature is rife with speculation an...