Notes - Imagery Found Among Magazines, Books and Films

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  1. Dietz and Evans, Pornographic Imagery and Prevalence of Paraphilla, 11 American Journal of Psychiatry, p. 139 (1982).
  2. See for example, The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, (1970), pp. 115-37.
  3. In New York, the random selection had been made at the time of the earlier study referred to in footnote 2309. Of the four stores studied earlier, three were identified. The fourth was no longer found at the previous location, thus, three of the four stores selected previously were investigated.
  4. Investigators included an Arlington County, Virginia, Police Department detective, Edward H. Chapman; a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department detective, Joseph B. Haggerty; a United States Postal Service inspector, Daniel L. Mihalko, and special agents of the United States Customs Service, David H. Borden, and Ramon Martinez.
  5. For a discussion of simulated child pornography, see, the discussion found in the Recommendations for Child Pornography.
  6. The essential feature of disorders in this subclass (Paraphilias) is that unusual or bizarre imagery or acts are necessary for sexual excitement. American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (3d ed. 1980), p. 266.
  7. Full formal results were not completed at the time of printing of this final report. The Commission, through its archives, will make such information available to persons conducting future research on this subject.
  8. The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography toured three pornography outlets in Houston, Texas.
  9. An informal survey of stores was conducted in Miami after the unsuccessful formal survey attempt described hereinafter.
  10. United States v. Sovereign News Company, General Video of America, No. Cr84-00149-L(A), Western District of Kentucky (1985).
  11. Three films were selected because of their substantial history of litigation. A summary of cases relating to the three films follows.
  12. Description of Senior Investigator Chapman. This magazine was seized by Kentucky State Police and found obscene in U.S. v Sovereign News Co., General Video of America, et al., No. CR 84-00149-C(A) (W.D. KY).
  13. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. This magazine was purchased at a pornographic outlet in Washington, D.C.
  14. Description of Senior Investigator Chapman. This magazine was purchased from an adult bookstore in Washington, D.C.; photographs appearing in this magazine were part of a collection which were the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry resulting in a prosecution and conviction. See, Los Angeles Hearing, Vol. II, Charles Sullivan, p. 65.
  15. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. This magazine was purchased from an a u t bookstore in Washington, D.C.
  16. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. This magazine was purchased from an adult bookstore in Washington, D.C.
  17. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. Seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service. This magazine is available by mail order.
  18. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. Seized by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service in cooperation with the U.S. Customs Service. This magazine is available by mail order.
  19. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. Purchased in an adult bookstore in the Washington, D.C. area.
  20. Description by Senior Investigator Chapman. Purchased from an adult bookstore in the Washington, D.C. area.
  21. Original description was completed by Senior Investigator Joseph B. Haggerty. This paperback book was purchased from an "adults only" pornographic outlet in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
  22. Original description By Senior Investigator Haggerty. This nationally distributed film was rented from a neighborhood video store. It was found obscene in U.S. v. Sovereign News Co., General Video of America, et al., N. CR8400149-L(A) (W.D. KY.).
  23. Original description by Senior Investigator Haggerty. This film was seize in the District of Columbia, were it was playing at an (adults only) theater. Prosecution was declined by the U.S. Attorney's Office of Superior Court, 1984.
  24. Original description by Senior Investigator Haggerty. This nationally distributed film was rented from a neighborhood video store.
  25. Original description by Senior Investigator Haggerty. This nationally distributed film was rented from a neighborhood video store.
  26. Deep Throat is reported to be the most widely sold and distributed pornographic film in history.
  27. Original description by Senior Investigator Haggerty. This nationally distributed film was rented from a neighborhood video store.
  28. Description was completed by Senior Investigator Joseph B. Haggerty. The film was viewed in a peep show booth in an "Adult Only" pornographic outlet in the Washington, D.C., area. An affidavit for seizure had previously been prepared and presented the U.S. Attorney's office of Superior Court but was declined in 1984.
  29. Description was completed by Senior Investigator Joseph B. Haggerty. The film was seized from a pornographic; outlet in Washington, D.C. An affidavit for seizure was submitted three times before it was finally approved by the U.S. Attorney's office of Superior Curt, but was later declined for prosecution in 1983.
  30. Original description by Senior Investigator Haggerty. This publication was purchased from a pornographic outlet in the District of Columbia, March 1986.

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