08-08-2003, 04:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
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Meese Commission.. anyone knows where to find the original report? (not the offical one 
I only found some interesting articles
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The research disproving the claim that sexual imagery triggers aggression would exhaust the remainder of this issue. The best overview can be read in The Question of Pornography: Research Findings and Policy Implications2, where authors Edward Donnerstein, Daniel Linz and Steven Penrod conclude, "Should harsher penalties be leveled against persons who traffic in pornography, particularly violent pornography? We do not beleive so . . . as we have noted, the existing research probably does not justify this approach."3 Neither the overview of the research prepared by Dr. Edna Einsiedel for the Meese Commission nor the Surgeon's General Report found a causal link between sexual material and anti-social behavior. When the Meese Commission, ignoring its own research, recommended restrictions on sexual material, two commissioners -- both women -- issued a dissenting report saying, "No self-respecting investigator would accept conclusions based on such a study."4 One dissenter, Dr. Judith Becker, director of the Sexual Behavior Clinic at New York State Psychiatric Institute, told The New York Times, "I've been working with sex offenders for 10 years and have reviewed the scientific literature and I don't think a causal link exists between pornography and sex crimes."
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http://home.earthlink.net/~durangoda...Censorship.htm
http://www.marciapally.com/harm02.html |
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