Contents

PART ONE
1. Commissioner Biographies
2. Acknowledgments and Notes
3. Individual Commissioners Statements
• Henry E. Hudson, Chairman
• Diane D. Cusack
• Park Elliott Dietz
• James Dobson
• Father Bruce Ritter
• Frederick Schauer
• Deanne Tilton-Durfee
• Judith Becker, & Ellen Levine
PART TWO:
Overview and Analysis
of Commission Findings
1. Introduction
2. The History of Pornography
3. The Constraints of the First Amendment
4. The Market and the Industry
5. The Question of Harm
6. Laws and Their Enforcement
7. Child Pornography
8. The Role of Private Action
PART THREE:
Law Enforcement Recommendations
1. Introduction
2. Recommendations for the Justice System and Law Enforcement Agencies
3. Child Pornography
4. Victimization
5. Civil Rights
6. Nuisance Laws
7. Anti-Display Laws
PART FOUR:
Pornography and Society
1. Victimization
2. The Use of Performers in Commercial Pornography
3. Social and Behavioral Science Research Analysis
4. Organized Crime
5. Regulation of Pornography: An Historical Perspective
6. First Amendment Considerations
7. Citizen and Community Action and Corporate Responsibility
8. Production and Distribution of Sexually Explicit Materials
9. The Imagery Found among Magazines, Books, and Films in "Adults Only" Pornographic Outlets
10. Sample Forms
11. Witnesses Testifying before the Commission
12. Witnesses Invited but Unable to Appear before the Commission
13. Persons Submitting Written Statements
PART FIVE:
Reference Material
1. Bibliography
2. Additional Suggested Reading Materials
3. Staff Listing
PART SIX
•  Photographs
•  APPENDIX A: Charter of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography

 

Attorney General's
Commission on Pornography

Final Report. July 1986
U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C. 20530.

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Edwin Meese
  • Controversial publication also known as "The Meese Report".

  • The report was commissioned by President Ronald Reagan from his Attorney General, Edwin Meese, to invesigate the pornography and the industry.

  • 1960 pages, five parts, 35 chapters

  • Over 4-inches thick.