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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1975
ONE OF THE DEFICIENCES OF THE INDECENT EXHIBITIONS ORDINANCE, THE SPOKESMAN SAID, WAS THE LEGAL DIFFICULTY IN SOME CASES IN PROVING THAT MATERIAL IN COMIC BOOKS - ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY IN BAD TASTE AND UNDESIRABLE - WAS INDECENT, OBSCENE, REVOLTING OR OFFENSIVE UNDER THE MEANING OF THE ORDINANCE.
*THIS IS WHY SPECIAL PROVISION HAS BEEN MADE IN THE NEW LEGISLATION TO COVER THIS AREA,+ HE EXPLAINED.
THE OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS BILL 1975 DEFINES AN OBJECTIONABLE ARTICLE AS ONE WHICH CONSISTS OF OR CONTAINS ANY INDECENT, OBSCENE, REVOLTING OR OFFENSIVE MATTER.
IT ALSO CLASSIFIES AS INDECENT, ADVERTISEMENTS RELATING TO DISEASES, COMPLAINTS AND INFIRMITIES ARISING FROM SEXUAL INTERCOURSE, EXCEPT WHEN SUCH AN ARTICLE APPEARS IN A BONA FIDE MEDICAL PUBLICATION.
THE BILL HAS A SPECIAL CLAUSE RELATING TO ARTICLES INTENDED FOR, OR LIKELY TO BE READ BY JUVENILES WHICH PORTRAY THE COMMISSION OF CRIME IN SUCH A WAY AS TO:
* CREATE SYMPATHY FOR OR EXTOL THE CRIMINAL
* PROMOTE DISTRUST OF OR CREATE DISRESPECT FOR THE
INSTITUTIONS ENTRUSTED WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW AND ORDER, AND
* INSPIRE OR ENCOURAGE PERSONS TO IMITATE CRIMINALS
THIS SPECIAL CLAUSE ALSO RELATES TO ARTICLES WHICH DEPICT:
* ACTS OF EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE OR CRUELTY, TORTURE OR OTHER
PHYSICAL AGONY
* ACTS OF A REPULSIVE OR HORRIBLE NATURE OR WHICH TEND TO
DEPRAVE
* SEDUCTION, RAPE OR SEXUAL PERVERSION
* THE COMMISSION OF CRIME, ACTS OF VIOLENCE, CRUELTY, OR MATTERS OF A REPULSIVE OR HORRIBLE NATURE IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE STORY AS A WHOLE WOULD TEND TO CORRUPT A JUVENILE.
+THESE PROVISIONS ARE ESPECIALLY DESIGNED TO CATCH THE MORE OBJECTIONABLE LITERATURE INTENDED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE,+ THE SPOKESMAN
SAID.
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