Bondage: Laura Manson Stansfield Photocollection
Dr. Laura Manson Stansfield, is a retired psychiatrist who served as an expert  witness during the last legal test of the Comstock Law, which resulted in the US Supreme Court  decision in 1969 that the constitution gives citizens the right to own erotic material. In this  landmark case, a Michael B. was accused of distributing and trading obscene material, and the  case went through many permutations until it reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In a final trial,  which centered around the photographic material presented in this book, Dr. Stansfield was  pivotal in gaining an acquittal for the accused on the basis of the evidence she had produced from  her analysis of Mr. B., that he did not accumulate the photos in question out of the desire to make  a profit but rather from a pathological urge for more and more erotic material.