The final report

Report

A report is a textual work made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form....

 of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (usually referred to as (the) Meese Report, for U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese

Edwin Meese

Edwin "Ed" Meese, III is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration , the Reagan Presidential Transition Team , and the Reagan White House , eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of...

) is the result of a comprehensive investigation into pornography

Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual arousal and erotic satisfaction.Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video,...

 ordered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

. It was published in July 1986 and contains 1,960 pages.

The following people comprised the commission (nicknamed The Meese Commission):

• Henry E. Hudson
  Henry E. Hudson
  Henry E. Hudson is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.-Early life and education:...
  
  , chairman.
• Diane D. Cusack
• Park Elliott Dietz
  Park Dietz
  Park Elliott Dietz is a forensic psychiatrist and criminologist who was educated at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University...
  
  
• James Dobson
  James Dobson
  James Clayton "Jim" Dobson, Jr. is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family , which he led until 2003. In the 1980s he was ranked as one of the most influential spokesman for conservative social positions in American public life...
  
  
• Father Bruce Ritter
  Bruce Ritter
  Rev. Bruce Ritter was a Roman Catholic priest and one-time Franciscan friar who founded the charity Covenant House in 1972 for homeless teenagers, from which he was forced to resign in 1990 after accusations that he had engaged in financial improprieties and had engaged in sexual relations with...
  
  
• Frederick Schauer
• Deanne Tilton-Durfee
• Judith Becker
• Ellen Levine

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

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

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 protections. The report also documents what the committee found to be the harmful effects of pornography

Pornography addiction

Pornography addiction, or more broadly overuse of pornography, is excessive pornography use that interferes with daily life.There is no diagnosis of pornography addiction in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , and as with the broader proposed diagnosis of sexual...

 and connections between pornographers and organized crime

Organized crime

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. The report was criticized by many inside and outside the pornography industry, calling it biased, incredible, and inaccurate

Accuracy and precision

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.

The "Meese Report" was preceded by the report of presidents Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

's and Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which was published in 1970 and recommended loosening the legal restrictions on pornography.

See also

• President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
• Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
  Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
  The Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship, better known as the Williams Committee, was a 1970s British Home Office committee chaired by Professor Bernard Williams...
  
  

External links

• Full text via porn-report.com
• The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile Meese Commission Report, by Pat Califia
  Patrick Califia
  Patrick Califia , born 1954 near Corpus Christi, Texas is a writer of nonfiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man.-Biography:...
  
  , an essay criticizing The Meese Report
• Politics and Pornography: A Comparison of the Findings of the President's Commission and the Meese Commission and the Resulting Response, by David M. Edwards