![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The letters triggered several companies to remove common soft-core pornography magazines as Playboy and Penthouse from store shelves. In fact, the list of purported distributors had been identified by Donald Wildmon, the head of the conservative Christian advocacy organization that later became the American Family Association. Prior to the Report's release, Meese Commission chairman Alan Sears sent letters on Commission letterhead to the heads of 23 convenience store chains and other companies, declaring that the Commission would find that they were distributors of pornography and threatening that they would be listed as such in the final Report. Johnson's and Richard Nixon's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which was published in 1970 and recommended loosening the legal restrictions on pornography. The "Meese Report" was preceded by the report of presidents Lyndon B. The report along with revised prosecution tactics under Attorney General Meese was effective in reducing pornography markets in some jurisdictions prior to the Internet. The report was criticized by many inside and outside the pornography industry, calling it biased, not credible, and inaccurate. The report also documents what the committee found to be the harmful effects of pornography and connections between pornographers and organized crime. The report is divided into five parts and 35 chapters and details most aspects of the pornography industry, including the history of pornography and the extent of First Amendment protections. The following people composed the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (commonly called the Meese Commission): It was published in July 1986 and contains 1,960 pages. The Meese Report (named for Edwin Meese), officially the Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, is the result of an investigation into pornography ordered by U.S. 1986 report on the effects of pornography The cover of the Meese Report ![]()
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