Communists Use Porn to Attack U.S. Morals, Sociologist Says

Posted on February 13, 2011 by lmharnisch

 
 

  Feb. 13, 1961, Comics  
  Feb. 13, 1961, Commie Smut  

Feb. 13, 1961: Who is this sociologist who warns that pornography “is part of a Communist-inspired effort to break down American character?” Alas, The Times doesn’t identify him — or her. And details are sketchy about the Los Angeles Know Your America Committee.

Digging through The Times clips for stories that link smut to communism is an interesting excursion into controversies over teaching sex education in schools, the Stanford students who abandoned the Young Americans for Freedom to become libertarians and other sagas. The only account I could find directly linking (or rather saying there was no link) between pornography and communism is a speech by then-Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk (d. 2001), later chief justice of the California Supreme Court. 

ALSO

Communism on the Daily Mirror

Smut on the Daily Mirror

Stanley Mosk on the Daily Mirror

 

  April 21, 1963  
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1 Response to Communists Use Porn to Attack U.S. Morals, Sociologist Says

  1. Fibber McGee's avatar Fibber McGee says:
    February 13, 2011 at 7:33 am

    Gee willikers. I’m just a country boy myself, but I suspect that most Smutmeisters were/are dedicated capatilists. In the Soviet Union the “commies” were prudes. They didn’t allow such stuff.

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