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Show THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCT. 2. 1969 3ic3inic3irriinic3iDinit ( . ty Re,. Laurence J. gurton . Recently I heard a story In Washington which centered on a fathei who found his 13-year-old son secretly reading a sex book. The lather assumed this was the type of erotic nonsense that teen-agers have been reading read-ing for the last 200 years . . . usually with no bad aftermath. , The man couldn't have been more wrong. As the father in-spectsd in-spectsd the book he fouid to his horror that it was tot primar ily a sex yarn. It was a savage blend of sadism, masochism and violence made attractive and ex citing by an Intermixture of sex. This incident is not an isolated one. It's a problem facing us all. If you are one of the few people eading this report who has not received pornographic material through the mails, then consider yourself lucky. Hundreds of my constituents have been otfe&ded by the filthy, degrading, crude advertisements which have come, uninvited, to their homes and of fices. In most any book store or mag' azine stand In the larger cities of An?r!ca--and this includes many cities in Utah - pornography pornog-raphy is sold openly to anyone having the fare to buy such trash. Pornography In book form or the soft-bound books along with magazines for the "homosexual trade" have multiplied so fast that organizations reporting to federal agencies say there are about 200 new titles created month! One agency told me that in the nation's capital, just one block from the White House, there is such a newsstand, frequented by young and old alike. Although the newsstand business busi-ness is big, the real problem for the anti-smut crusade lies in our postal system. The U. S. Post Office Department reports at least 100 million copies of "objectionable" "ob-jectionable" publications go through the mall each year. The Department estimates that ahalf-biilion ahalf-biilion dillars' worth of obscene materials are distributed by mail or truck or express. While pornography is bigbusi-nesf bigbusi-nesf nationwide, the distributors cloak themselves In secrecy. Ever since Ralph Ginzburg was convicted in the federal courts on charges of selling his magazine maga-zine "Eros," other smut peddlers ped-dlers have been reluctant to say openly who they are and what they're selling. The addresses from which our young people are receiving the material include "Box X," or the address may Include simply a city which is no city at aU but merely a title for a box number In a locale. California has been termed the pornography capital of the United States. It is estimated that this business in California nets over $19 million annually and that some 50,000 Californ-iar.s Californ-iar.s participate in some way in the filth racket. It is also reported re-ported that out of California's school population of six million children, half a million have been mailed, sold, handed or shown some kind of sordid material. Los Angeles is the home of the undisputed top publisher of "girlie" "girl-ie" and "nude" magazines, with more than 700,000 copies printed and poured out over the nation. There are eight major publishers of dirty paperbacks churning out 1.5 million books a month. Add to this young starlets "posing for films," along with still photos and slides and you have a multi-million multi-million dollar business operation opera-tion each year. Now what do all these facts about California have to do with Utah? Simply this: obscene material, ma-terial, emanating from California Cali-fornia is being mailed to homes in Utah and throughout the country. V'hat about freedom uf the press and freedom of speech? I would be the first to uphold our first oendment, but making mak-ing pornography available to children is Immoral and irresponsible irres-ponsible and represents license, not freedom. It is wrong, and terribly dangerous, to put into the hands of young people who are In the process of establishing the guidelines for their sexual behavior books and pictures which give them a perverted view of sex and life generally. Those of us who are trying to rear wholesome, normal youngsters, young-sters, with ahealthy outlook on all aspects of life, deeply resent this threat to our children's well - o , Our present laws on the mailing mail-ing of sex-oriented advertising just aren't getting the job done. For example, constituents may notify the postmaster that they will not accept any more mail from a particular advertiser. But In the meantime, they may find themselves on other mailing lists. There have been several bills introduced in the House which would limit the distribution of pornographic materials, but in my opinion, they are either of dubious du-bious constitutionality or dubious effectiveness. How, then are we to uphold the principles of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of choice, and at the same time cope with the menace nt TJTntvrMthvt) Cia rtrrrrnfh T believe, is contained In a bill that I introduced in the House which would stem the flow of obscene and sexually provocative advertising through the mails by requiring a peddler of such materials ma-terials to get the permission of a prospective customer before sending him advertising of this kind. Permission would have to be obtained through a form let ter which contained no pictures or lurid language and once re ceived, would allow the publish' er to send as much advertising as he pleases. 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