September 25, 1957. (Photo: Miami Herald)
The Decent Literature Council, established in 1956, was active well into the 1960s. Its mission was “to protect youth from obscenity and pornography.” Here’s one of the directors, from a 1961 Miami News story:
We have found from resource reading… that pornographic literature becomes like a drug. As a child reads, he requires stronger doses, and it finally becomes destructive.
And here’s Charles Keating, Chairman of Citizens for Decent Literature (est. 1958), speaking to the Decent Literature Council in 1964:
The material constitutes a detailed course of instruction in perversion…
These sex-mad magazines are creating criminals faster than we can build jails to house them.
The publications provide youngsters with an entry to the world of lesbians, homosexuals, sadists, and other deviates whose names and actions are unknown to most decent people of this country.
If Keating’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he was at the center of the Savings and Loan Crisis of the late 1980s. He was convicted of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy, and went to jail. (Luckily, we still had one to house him.)
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This is surely an interesting post. There’s also a case surrounding the validity of the “resources” learned from that would constitute rightful action behind their movement. And it turned into fraud and unfounded claims.
Furthermore, it’s awesome seeing the little girl on the right reading “Turok” while there’s Looney Tunes comics on the floor. Purely awesome.