the degradation of these people is so complete as shown here that their sex satisfaction and climax come only in being tortured themselves of inflicting torture on others even the blasphemy of the human body is depicted in this devil a sadistic shot becoming more and more common on our newsstands of america some of them have you been in the supermarket without brushing by the news racked with the so called men's adventure magazines where with words and picture lust and violence filled pages devoured by juvenile it would seem the publishers of this material deliberately print these magazines in the parlance of the narcotic to hook the adolescent into the knowledge of the natural these publishers know well that once so exposed the insatiable curiosity of youth will cause them to delve deeper and deeper into this grotesque but serial until there's utter depravity is complete all of you have heard of mail order obscenity the problem is graphically illustrated by these advertisement all of which were clipped from this one copy of a single girlie magazines in the years as well as in all the other groups of magazines the raw materials can be ordered through the united states mails and thus newsstands publications create a market for illustrated hardcore pornography after these displays you probably think that there couldn't be anything worse but perhaps the most insidious single group of publications is the cheap pocket book page after page of these so called novels sex organs sins of intercourse abnormal sex practices of every kind are described with intimate physical details nothing is left to the imagination an invitation even is extended to the  join the fun teenagers particularly liable to fold down the corners of the obscene passages the more readily to dwell on them over and over and over again and the teenager soon gets to recognise the publishers of the words material and seeks out their product that our young people this philosophy is not just in this book but through all of this material a sixteen year old boy a member of a gang has just clubbed an old man in the course of a robbery and he's thinking back over his accomplishment maybe he would die that would mean i had murdered him i smiled trying the idea on for size one of the things that always a tease me a little was that i had no kills to my credit i've been in plenty of rumbles but somehow i' never cooled anyone well maybe now i have my first one i couldn't feel very proud of sculling an old man but at least i could say that i had scored that was a big kick what are we alive for except i agree of all the kicks we can sex that's a kick here a damn good one a guy can ever get enough of that drinking that's another kick and ok kick marijuana sure and is good too if you don't let it get the upper hand with heroin h there was something to be said for that i tried it but horse isn't such a good kick because it takes more than it gives and before long you use it you don't get any kick there are others rape that was a kick that i'd try to couple times it makes you feel real big to grab a girl report clothes off and take her the way i figure if you get kicked from what you do to other people if you take something from a girl if she values you've gained something or at least that's the way i look at it i'm brainier than a lot of gang guys i spent a lot of time thinking maybe i should have been a professor the way i thought it out taking a girls carries a hell of a gratifying thing and so is murder that was one kick i hadn't experienced yet taking life that's living big only i wasn't happy about doing it this long drawn out way and old man slowly dying there wasn't much kick in that but sticking a knife into a guide twisting upward that must be something repeat my friends i have not shown you these pictures and quoted from this material merely to shock you or make this presentation sensational it is only to show what is openly available on your news  and think of this what you have just seen is not the worst material available and yet even this required editing to make it suitable to be shown in this them the vast majority of this material is too obscene to show or to quote to you well certainly other factors are contributing to the moral decay that concerns so many decent people today but isn't it reasonable to presume that material such as you've just seen is one of the major factors and it is important to realize that even if you knew that your own children would never under any conditions buy or read this material if you knew this and you can't know this you must realize that they are constantly exposed to those who do read this material and who might be triggered into compulsive acts of sex violence as i said before the most insidious feature of these publications is that they glorify crime and ridicule law and the thought bias is presented as fun this warped diety a fun has contributed to the fact that one out of every twenty children born in the united states last year was illegitimate the the illegitimacy has been steadily climbing and the care of these children cost taxpayers one billion dollars a year in government a this does not take into account the human misery or suffering that cannot be hundred percent in the last five years the incidence of gonorrhea has been steadily rising one segment of the increase occurs among the expanding homosexual population but even more startling is the fact that the greatest increase in venereal disease is among children tend to eighteen years of age the increasing crime rate also parallels the increase in obscenity vicious crime of violence murder forcible rape or assault to kill is being committed every three minutes the total cost of crime and human wast misery tax and material loss is beyond calculation sex mad magazines are helping to create criminals faster than we can build jails to house them this two billion dollar a year wreck it is challenging every mother and father in this country and everyone interested in the welfare of our children the question is  you want your children stimulated and driven into an early unstable marriage before they have had a chance to achieve the economic educational and emotional stability necessary for family life do you want your son enticed into the world of homosexuals or your daughter lurd into lesbian ism do you want either of them to discover how to get sexual gratification by inflicting pain on themselves or by torturing other people do you want them to lose all chance of a normal all happy married life opponents to the control of obscene literature state that the circulation of this material is the price we pay for freedom in this country but the united states supreme court does not agree smut peddlers do not have the right to contaminate our society this is a nation of laws and you and i have a constitutional guarantee to police protection of our welfare the law is our weapon here in a typical courtroom a judge is instructing the jury in the case of a smut peddler ladies and gentlemen of the jury lake road has a valid constitutional legal argument prohibiting the publication say our distribution of obscene material it is under this law that the defendant here ian was arrested and prosecuted the supreme court of the united states has clearly stated that obscenity as without constitutional protections supreme court has defined obscenity as material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to the primary an interest that is material having a tendency to excite last call such it might be well to point out that it is not necessary to prove that this material has led to an act of violence or sex crime but merely that the material taken in itself is obscene the test is whether to the average person applying contemporary community standards the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the primary and interest material needs this test is without the constitutional guarantees  freedom of press and speech now you the jury must apply the test of obscenity to the material distributed by the defendant you ladies and gentlemen of the during and the sorrow triers of the fact in this case the application of this legal test to the evidence is to be made by you and you alone you and i thanked by your decency determine the level of morality in this community you indeed are the peers of the community and so my friends the question is whether you consider publication samples of which you have seen in this film to be below your community standards to find the answer ask yourself these questions what you display this material on your living room table do you find such material in the living rooms of your friends and neighbors would you read stories from these publications to your family or friends would you undertake to sell this material from darted all are of course you would not your community standards are far above this to pray the material out what can you do to solve the problems you have seen the nature of the problem you heard the legal solution but what can you as an individual in your own community do first start with your own home check their own reading and the reading matter coming into your home for your entire family remember children can be contaminated by magazines brought into the home by adults second promote good reading encourage children to use the library good books and magazines well help build positive values that are a protection against obscenity third check neighborhood outlets that display pocket books and magazines grocery stores newsstand small shops everywhere from the corner drugstore to the barber shop and if you buy and obscenity for sale quality to the attention of the owner remember trading in stores that sells salacious material supports the obscenity ereka to use for report objectionable material to the police every arrest and prosecution every conviction is a step been the education of the public to the solution of the problem remember the law is your weapon this write letters of commendation to police prosecutors other public officials and to the newspapers whenever they take action against obscenity such letters and other direct contacts in farm the public officials how high your community standards are six farm a committee or decent literature within your fraternal civic or religious organization this committee will keep your own organization informed and active against filth form a citizens or decent literature group in your community such a community organization will awaken people to the problem it will provide speakers and other means to educate the public and around public opinion which will support the police and prosecutors so that prompts vigorous enforcement of the law can be expected information and  the organization of a citizens for decent literature unit can be obtained by writing to see the panel box twelve cincinnati ohio so you can see from what i have told you and shown you today that a moral decay is spreading through our country and our society the same type of rot indicates cause sixteen of aggressor but because of moral decay see from within but we are in a unique position to cure our own is our constitution was written by men who put their trust in god and founded a government based on his law these laws are on our side we have a constitutional guarantee but protection against obscenity and in this day especially we must seek to deliver ourselves from this twisting torturing evil we must save our nation from decay and deliver our children from the horrors of perversion we must make our land the land of the free a oh god deliver us americans