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 Other Sites of Interest • World Sex News • World Sex Records • Odd Sex Encyclopedia • ABC Dating • My Secret Life­ by Walter • Adult Videos & DVDs • 24hourCams.com • Lovenet • Naughty.biz Layout and design (c)2004 www.porn-report.com

1970: Publication of the Report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, recommending against any state or federal restrictions on the material available to consenting adults. Rejected by President Nixon and by Congress. 22 February 1985: The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography established pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, by then Attorney General of the United States William French Smith, at the specific request of President Ronald Reagan. 27 - 28 March 1985: Notice of the formation of The Commission, as required by Section 9(c) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, given to both Houses of Congress and to the Library of Congress. 20 May 1985: Attorney General Edwin Meese III publicly announces formation of The Commission and the names of its eleven members. 18 - 20 June 1985: Public hearings and meetings in Washington, D.C. 13 - 25 July 1985: Public hearings and meetings in Chicago, Illinois. 10 - 12 September 1985: Public hearings and meetings in Houston, Texas. 15 - 18 October 1985: Public hearings and meetings in Los Angeles, California. 19 - 22 November 1985: Public hearings and meetings in Miami, Florida. 21 - 24 January 1986: Public hearings and meetings in Miami, Florida. 9 July 1986 Final Report published

Other Notable Dates 1708: James Read indicted in London for publishing an extremely explicit book entitled The Fifteen Plagues of a Maidenhead. (Dismissed) 1727: Edmund Curll convicted for corrupting public morals on account of his publication of Venus in the Cloister, or the Nun in Her Smock 1748: John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, published. 1815: First reported conviction in the USA in Pennsylvania (Commonwealth v. Sharpless) for the common law crime of obscene libel. 1821: First reported conviction in Massachusetts (Commonwealth v. Holmes) for the common law crime of obscene libel. 1821: Vermont passed the country's first statute prohibiting the publication or distribution of obscene materials. 1824: Vagrancy Act of 1824, provides criminal penalties for the publication of an indecent picture. 1853: Legislation enacted directed primarily at the increasing importation into England of so-called "French postcards". 1873: New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, officially created.