Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Tom Mathews


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  1. Tom Mathews, un autre des hommes du désert de Bruce Bellas.
    Il semble que Bellas et d’autres photographes étaient libres de créer davantage de nus de face dans les années 1940 et au début des années 1950, puis ont arrêté lorsque les autorités postales ont commencé à les prosécuter vigoureusement, pour ensuite ensuite vendez des nus complets en privé à des clients de confiance.
    -Beau Mec

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    1. Je pense que c'est vrai - il est intéressant de noter qu'il y a eu une période où l'on pouvait contourner la loi en toute confiance et à la vue relativement bien.

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  2. It first started with local postal inspectors and postmasters cracking down on lewd materials in the mail. Los Angeles had one such postmaster who went after Frederick Ko’Vert in the 1940’s.
    Things got worse with the Eisenhower administration and the appointment of Arthur Summerfield as postmaster general of the United States. He began a vigorous campaign against lewd materials in the mail, which in turn emboldened State District Attorneys nationwide, bringing legal action against such varied publishers as Hugh Hefner and Lynn Womack. Summerfield even campaigned against comic books, denouncing them as subversive and salacious and bad influences on children. Eventually legal actions and the courts prevailed on the side of free speech and expression and rights to privacy. Now we have the dangerous precedent of reactionary forces demanding we go back to the old ways of limited speech and no right to privacy.
    Some of these lunatics feel we should have no rights at all :(
    -Rj

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