The Obscene, Disgusting, and Vile Meese Commission Report by Pat Califa, 1986

."The final report of this new Commission, published in July, 1986, holds out the hope that by using draconian measures against pornography we can turn America into a rerun of "Leave It to Beaver." The Commission's findings should placate the lowest common denominator of the citizenry who made a drugstore cowboy our Chief Executive--those folks who believe the Bible should be taken literally, but the First Amendment should not."

The Harm of Porn: Just Another Excuse to Censor An article by Avedon Carol

Avedon Carol, long a student of the effects of porn, writes a short history of anti-porn activism.

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

A history of the conflicts between the findings of the 1970 President's Report and the Meese Commission.

"What these two historical episodes have in common is a desire to focus public concern on a target which could be easily attacked in order to divert attention from underlying social problems which are not amenable to politically innocuous solutions."

Pornography Commission Report Baptist Doctrine applied to this political Report. (Link fixed)

Free speech advocates fret about NAS Net-porn commission, a discussion that begins with the Meese Commission. There's an interesting follow up about children and access to pornography here. [Info on the National Acadamy of Sciences (NAS)]

Pornography Studies: The Social Effects of Porn, our links to other, more scientific studies than the Meese Commission report.