Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression

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index Abolitionists, condemning, 13 Abortion, 16, 18, 20, 29, 41, 53, 208, 228 Abrams v. U.S. (1919), 35, 36, 37, 231, 234 ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union Activism, 30, 182, 218; anti-obscenity, 25; antismut, 191, 209; civil liberties, 32; free-speech, 27, 29, 49, 78, 221; legal doctrine and, 191; moral, 174; pacifist, 234 Adams, John, 8 Adams Newark Theater Co. v. Newark (1956), 176, 231 Adams Theatre Co. v. Keenan (1953), 162, 231 Adultery, 93, 101 Akarman, George, 12 Alberts, David, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 172, 180, 196, 201; imprisonment of, 160, 169 Alberts, Violet, 153, 154 Alberts v. California (1957), 150, 153, 158, 160, 164, 172, 176, 235; amicus curiae briefs for, 157; Brown and, 156; First Amendment and, 155; Roth and, 159, 161, 171 Albrecht, David von G., 148, 157, 158 Alien Immigration Act (1903), 29, 33 Altar of Venus, 67 Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon, The, 68 America, 111, 121, 177–178 American Aphrodite, 112, 116, 133, 134, 135, 137, 169, 235 American Bar Association, 10 American Book Publishers Council, 110, 142 American Booksellers Association v. Hudnut (1984), 231 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 31, 45, 81–88, 98, 102, 132, 147, 150, 169, 178, 221, 234; censorship and, 44, 80; Censorship Panel, 141; civil liberties and, 32; First Amendment and, 32; free speech and, 30, 32, 36; freedom of expression and, 101; obscenity law and, 46, 142, 196; political mainstream and, 80; Roth and, 82–83, 84; Scopes Monkey Trial and, 44; social conventions and, 81 American Federation of Labor, 33 American Institute of Family Relations, 77 American Law Institute, 167 American Sexual Tragedy, The, 135 American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 99 American Union Against Militarism, 30 Anecdota Americana, 67 Anthony, Rey, 197 Anti-Catholicism, 43, 182 Anti-Semitism, 43, 50, 51–52, 56, 66, 67, 97, 181 Antiporn feminists, 202, 217–218, 221, 224–225, 236 Antismut rhetoric, 64, 191 Antiwar rhetoric, 30, 34 Aptheker, Herbert, 123 Arabian Love Manual, 128 Aristotle’s Masterpiece, 7 Arnold, Thurman, 77 Arrowhead Books, 84, 85 Atlas, Nicholas, 113, 114, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, 224 Authors’ League of America, 98, 147 { 249 } Baby Doll, 191 Baby Face, 64 Bad Attitude, 221 Baldwin, Roger, 36, 44, 81, 82; civil liberties and, 31; NCLB and, 30; radical affiliations of, 32 Balzac, Honore, 86, 91 Bantam Books, 204 Bantam Books v. Sullivan (1963), 231 Bara, Theda, 40 Barker, Sarah Evans, 221, 222 Beardsley, Aubrey, 58, 134 Beau (Roth), 52, 53, 54, 56, 58, 92–93, 111, 116 Beauharnais, Joseph, 126 Beauharnais v. Illinois (1952), 126, 164, 166, 175, 231 Beautiful Sinners of New York, 113, 133, 136 Becker, Harold, 128 Bed of Feathers and Tale, A (Davies), 73, 116 Beecher, Henry Ward, 15 Behavior: antisocial, 142, 147, 156, 166, 214; immigrant, 19; sexual, 88, 93, 204; smut and, 140 Bennett, D. M., 21–22, 23, 28, 29; Comstock and, 22 Berg, Louis, 113 Bergman, Ingmar, 205 Better Homes and Gardens, 106, 150 “Between Propaganda and Trash,” 177 Big Kill, The, 111 Bill of Rights, 96, 97, 188, 233 Birth control, 20, 41, 108, 147, 183 Black, Hugo, 102, 146–147, 160, 166, 176, 187, 188, 212; amoral absolutism and, 180; antiracist laws and, 126; on criminal justice, 209–210; dissent by, 125, 193; First Amendment and, 75, 96, 124, 159, 173; Frankfurter and, 96, 97; obscenity and, 126; pornography and, 210; Roth and, 104, 198, 202 Black Lust, 68–69 Blackmun, Harry, 211 Blasphemy, 6, 7, 9, 10, 25, 164; obscenity and, 8, 22; social regulation of, 5 Blatchford, Samuel, 22, 23 Blease, Coleman Livingston, 64 Blick, Roy, 118 Boar’s Head, 92 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 58, 86, 171 Body’s Rapture, The, 73 Booklegging, 64, 119 “Boston Massacre,” 44, 45 Bow, Clara, 40 Boyer, Paul, 18, 40, 43 Brace, Charles Loring, 15 Bradshaw, Joanna, 113 Brainard, Clinton, 54 Brandeis, Louis, 175; First Amendment and, 36; free speech and, 37; Whitney and, 37, 38 Brennan, William, 6, 149, 151, 159, 186, 192, 200, 236; blasphemy and, 164; censorship and, 1; civil libertarian argument and, 166; community standards and, 187; criticism of, 178–179; “dominant effect” test and, 163; Douglas and, 173–174; First Amendment and, 212; Frankfurter and, 163, 166; freedom of speech and, 179, 188; Ginzburg and, 199; Kingsley and, 176; Miller and, 215; obscenity and, 5, 167, 182, 191, 216; obscenity doctrine and, 162, 165, 235; obscenity law and, 160, 171, 188; pornography and, 189, 195; prurient interest and, 169...