The final report of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (sometimes called The Meese Report for Attorney General Edwin Meese) is the result of a comprehensive investigation into pornography ordered by President Ronald Reagan. It was published in July 1986 and contains 1,960 pages. Download high resolution version (480x719, 24 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Edwin Meese III (born December 2, 1931 in Oakland, California) served as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States (1985 - 1988). ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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

• Henry E. Hudson, chairman.
• Diane D. Cusack
• Park Elliott Dietz
• James Dobson
• Father Bruce Ritter
• Frederick Schauer
• Deanne Tilton-Durfee
• Judith Becker
• Ellen Levine

The report is divided into five parts and thirty-five chapters and details most aspects of the pornography industry, including the history of pornography and the extent of First Amendment protections. The report also documents what the committee found to be the harmful effects of pornography and connections between pornographers and organized crime. The report was criticized by some of the scientists whose research was utilized; they claim that their results were distorted and incongruent with the final report. Some also believe that Meese similarly minimalized evidence indicating that pornography is not dangerous. The report was also criticized by many in the pornography industry, calling it biased, incredible, and inaccurate. A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Park Dietz (1951 - ) is a forensic psychiatrist. ... Dr. James Dobson Dr. James Clayton Dobson (born April 21, 1936) is a conservative Christian psychologist who presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... Pornography addiction is an addiction to pornography, characterized by obsessive viewing, reading, and thinking about pornography without regard to negative consequences. ... Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...

Oddly enough, Mr Meese is known to be an avid viewer of scatalogical pornography in his free time, so his participation in this panel is considered by many to be a ruse concocted to conceal his hidden pleasures.

External links

• Full text via porn-report.com
• An essay criticizing The Meese Report
• The history of and reaction to the report