The two men were speaking in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice, flanked by larger-than-life statues of a man and a women. ''Equally, we oppose the abuse of women and the violence and degradation of women.''

We strongly support the right of everybody to read,'' Hudson insisted. ''Our commission specifically rejected the notion of censorship. I can guarantee to you that there will be no censorship. When asked if the report suggests censorship, Meese responded: ''I`m not concerned about any censorship being fostered by this document. All that this government study proves is that if you give a biased pro-censorship commission a half million tax dollars and a year, they will write a lopsided, pro-censorship report.''įrom its beginning a year ago, this pornography panel was both heralded as necessary to combat the $8 billion-a-year porno business and scorned as a one-sided ''witchhunt.'' Lynn of the ACLU called the report ''little more than prudishness and moralizing masquerading behind social science jargon. ''appeals to the grass-roots heartbeat of this country and common-sense perspective.'' Bob Guccione, who publishes Penthouse, said the report was Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, said the report Playboy claimed it lost 12,000 outlets and Penthouse said it lost 17,000 stores where that magazine previously was sold. District Judge John Garrett Penn also demanded the commission repudiate a letter sent out by its executive director, Alan Sears, telling retailers such as 7-Eleven and Wal-Mart that testimony indicated they were distributors of pornography. ''This commission is more antisex than antipornography,'' said Burton Joseph, a Chicago attorney for Playboy magazine who won a federal restraining order against the commission last week, barring it from listing corporations that sell ''male'' or adult magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. ''We felt and we still feel it was a very balanced commission,'' said Meese, who deflected more than a dozen questions at a Wednesday press conference by saying he had not yet studied the report. The fact that it dominated the materials presented at our hearings may have distorted the commission`s judgment.'' No self-respecting investigator would accept conclusions based on such a study.'' They said ''the visuals, both print and video, were skewed to the very violent and extremely degrading. it seems obvious that the data gathered is not well balanced. In their formal objection to the report, Levine and Becker wrote They also cautioned against violating citizens` rights to legal activities. In a separate statement, the three expressed strong objections to the exploitation of women and portrayal of them as eager victims of abuse or as less competent or valuable to society than men. Judith Becker, a Columbia University psychologist who has counseled both rape victims and their attackers. The three members considered neutral experts were all women: Ellen Levine, editor of Woman`s Day magazine Deanne Tilton-Durfee, president of a group of organizations caring for child-abuse victims in California and Dr.

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