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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday june 21, 1977 the Campaign against Graphy modern living by Peter Arnett associated press he was just a Young child smiling shyly when her pictures first began appearing in nudist magazines several years ago. The poses got bolder Over the , barely a teen Ager she is the Star of a 40-Page, full color Magazine called How to de Flower a  it s Selling across America. She is a celebrity in the flourishing netherworld of child  Las Angeles police department s sexual abuse of children unit has been compiling her Pic Ture file Over the years. They see her As a victim not a Star. She is one of thousands of children who have their own family albums at police departments around the country. The emergence of sexual films and pictures of children As toe latest Idzik or pornographers has so shocked some social agencies and Citi Zens groups that they have launched a new front in the Long smouldering War Over pornography. In new York City where National attention was first drawn in january to child exploitation in com Mercial sex. The Campaign is entered on times Square Long notorious for its porno houses. Mayor Abraham Beame and other civic leaders have been making much publicized on the scene inspections. Smut districts have been picketed in other East coast and Midwest  some observers fear that in All this noise the True victims the children will be forgotten. The Odyssey Institute in new York which works with the socially disadvantaged has been in the forefront of the Campaign against child porno. Fred Cohen executive director of the Institute says we have come up against civil libertarians who hate what we Are doing and take the adult Side that there must be total Freedom. We Don t care what the adult reads but about the trauma to the children involved. The Childs rights must have  or. Judianne Dan san Gerber Odyssey s presi Dent has been barnstorming the country with the same message. We know psychiatric ally How destructive this inappropriate sexuality is to our Chil Dren the wide use of children in pornography is Only now becoming apparent. Magarino Fea Turing Young boys have Long keen available for the homosexual Trade Bat in the past Yea police report on Avalanche publication and films featuring children. Robin Lloyd a los Angeles based television news Man who has written a Book on the subject says he has 264 magazines each costing about j7, dealing with sex involving children under 16. One Publica Tion deals entirely with sex Between identical Young  raids have gathered up whole warehouses of child porn. A major find in a Houston raid in 1975 was 15,000 color slides of boys in sex acts. New York new York Tom a or. Judianne Densen Gerber battling against the deviant  police discovered last year that one third of their 2. 000 Wai Chouse feet of pornography involved Chil  magazines Range from loll tots which Fea Tures Young girls aping their big Sisters in Penthouse and Playboy to hardcore extravaganzas such As How to deflower a  author Lloyd reports that there Are even several organized groups in the United states dedicated to the proposition that sex Between adults and children is not Only desirable but necessary for the mental Well being of the  such group is the Rene Guyon society head quartered at a Post office Box number in Alhambra Calif. It claims a membership of 2,000 families. The society one time sported a slogan on its Letterhead that read sex before eight or else it s too  the society has lobbied the state legislature to allow sex Between consenting persons of any age. A Chicago based group Calls itself pan. For Pedo Philiaus Anonymous and one of its pamphlets says that sensitive Loving adults Are toe Only reason Able agents for the furtherance of childhood sexual  who Are the children exploited in the Maga Zines and movies like the Little girl who posed shyly in a nudist Magazine and then graduated into hardcore Pom most Are totally Anonymous. We know every anatomical detail but not their names or addresses said it. Lloyd Martin of los Angeles police sexual abuse of children unit. There is Little doubt that most of the children Are american. Car License plates and Street signs give Florida and California backgrounds even to films purportedly made in  s Cohen says the europeans have Knusto Gerlaw again using of Cynthis Way. Ninety percent of alias porn Ola the world comes from  much of the american porn comes from Southern California. You can Tell by the suntan Marks on a child s body that it is from a sunny climate said los Angeles detective Martin. If they Are Pale per formers they Are probably from new York. There an do accurate statistics on Chow involvement they Range into the hundreds of thousands. Police know Bow some adds get into the business through their parents. A new York housewife is known to have produced a run minute porno movie called Susie and her Little brother r starring her 10-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son. Officials at Odyssey Institute have been showing the scratchy crudely sexual movie around the country As evidence of what to going on. The Institute said the housewife sold 60 copies of the movie last Christmas for $30 each. The Little girl is now being held in a new York Catholic  of the older children s pornography also finds its Way onto the Market through  s the Only Way the really Young kids can get in  said it.  in magazines and the huge pornography mail order business allows untrammelled Trade with Little possibility of  children get into their Early teens they Are More directly available to Pomo Grapher. Capt. Wil Liam j. Riddle commander of the . Police department s juvenile division said thousands of Youthful runaways Are being subjected to every conceivable sex crime including acts of Sado Maso  officials said 40 per cent of the female runaways that pass through their hands were Vic Tims of incest at Home. What can be done about child pornography los Angeles capt. Riddle says that children s pornography should be separated from ado porn under the Law. That View is shared by Odyssey s vice president and general counsel Stephen Hutchinson who said no state has Laws that specifically address themselves to child porno. He and others Are lobbying Congress with a Bill creating heavy Federal liabilities for per sons who use children for smut. States Are being pressured to introduce similar binding Laws. We know that with Public support we would do More said it. Martin of the los Angeles sexual abuse unit. The real sad part is that we can t show the Public the material we have on hand. It is just too objectionable for Public  while some opponents await legislation others continue the direct approach. Housewives have car ried signs in Boston and Detroit porno areas. News papers have investigated smut districts elsewhere. But the business goes on. Despite All the publicity swirling around times Square patrons could plunk their quarters Down a film machine at the Cross roads porno store the other Day and watch the latest hit Vietnam vet comes Home from the War to de Flower his  police report a recent increase in publications featuring child pornography  
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