Perversion for Profit (1965)

George Putnam: Self - Host

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• George Putnam : Hello there. I'm George Putnam. I'd like to begin with a fact, a simple yet shocking fact. It is this - a floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity and is threatening to pervert an entire generation of our American children.

• George Putnam : Through this material, today's youth can be stimulated to sexual activity to which he has no legitimate outlet. He is even enticed to enter the world of homosexuals, lesbians, sadists, masochists and other sex deviants.

• George Putnam : Think then of the consequences to the inexperienced youth who, in purchasing and studying this material, becomes a pawn for these misfits, these homosexuals.

• George Putnam : This moral decay weakens our resistance to the onslaught of the Communist masters of deceit.

• George Putnam : The United States Supreme Court has described it as 'dirt for dirt's sake.'

• George Putnam : Group exposure is a hallmark of these cultists. However, it's been well-stated that very few blind people join the nudist colonies.

• George Putnam : These magazines not only display complete nudity, but they do so in a perverted manner.

• George Putnam : In this ad, the titles of magazines and their table of contents, speak more eloquently than I of the tremendous problem here presented: "Sexual Sadism", "Strange Flagellation Cults", "Erotic" , "Confessions of a Sadists", "What is Fetischism?", "The Pleasure of Pain", "The Worship of the Whip", "Sexual Problems of a Masochist", "How to buy a Whipping", "Famous Transvestites", "Are Cross-Dressers Afraid of Sex?".

• George Putnam : See the tender age at which homosexuals prefer their conquests. Look here at the young face.

• George Putnam : This type of aberration is usually depicted by showing several persons, one of whom is dominant and binding or inflicting pain upon the other. And, thus, the grotesque costuming, the significance of the extreme spiked heal and the tight boot, the riding crop, the burning cigarette, rubber and leather garments, and all the rest.

• George Putnam : Today the news stands, quote, depict the world as a sort of human zoo, inhabited by raped, mutilated and murdered females - and by he-males, outmatching in bestiality, cavemen, and out-lusting the lustiest of animals.

• George Putnam : Then, we come to a terribly sad indictment of our society: the so-called physique group of publications, these magazines with a homosexual viewpoint and poses are often not understood by many youngsters who take them as instructions of body development. But psychiatrists believe that prolonged exposure of even the normal male adult to this type of publication, though he not be aware of its true nature, will nevertheless - pervert.

• George Putnam : Pornography and sex deviation have always been with mankind. This is true. But now, consider another fact. Never in the history of the world have the merchants of obscenity, the teachers of unnatural sex acts, had available to them the modern facility for disseminating this filth.

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  George Putnam : Oh God, deliver us, Americans, from evil.

• George Putnam : We must seek to deliver ourselves from this twisted, torturing evil. We must save our nation from decay, and deliver our children from the horrors of perversion.

• George Putnam : In the past few years, this obscenity traffic and salacious newsstand literature has become increasingly worse. Not only in content, but in volume. This traffic continues to increase and flourish for one reason: it is Big Business - profitable business, of the mercenary persons who produce it and for its more than *800* distributors.

• George Putnam : Obscene literature is a two billion dollar a year business. That's - Two - Billion - Dollars.

• George Putnam : Through this salacious material, these abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children. Perversion for profit.

• George Putnam : Here are the most vicious, the most insidious feature of these publications. They constantly portray abnormal sexual behavior as being normal. They glorify unnatural sex acts. They tell youngsters that it's smart, it's thrilling, it provides kicks to be a homosexual, a sadist, and every other kind of deviant.

• George Putnam : A major factor that makes youngsters prime targets for this printed filth, is the natural curiosity of youth, about the mysterious force of sex.

• George Putnam : My friends, I wish to make it clear that the obscenity that I'm talking about and the examples that I'm about to show you, were not bought on the sly from under-the-counter. They were not purchased on skid row or on the other side of the tracks. They could be bought openly by anyone in drug stores, groceries, delicatessens, terminals, malt shops, cigar stores, news stands - all over the community.

• George Putnam : A prime example of one major category, are the so-called girlie magazines; which sell over 15 million copies a month. These highly colorful magazines, picture stark nudity on slick paper. They often present their subject on beds or a couch, in positions indicative of intercourse or other sex acts - obviously calculated to stimulate the reader.

• George Putnam : The nakedness, the nudity of these magazines is defended and hoisted upon the people by a vociferous minority in our society. They lack the moral standards and values of our Judeo-Christian heritage.

• George Putnam : These shots, which are typical of the preoccupation with the female breasts - to a point that it has become a fetish.

• George Putnam : Another important problem common to these publications, is the dwelling upon teenage participation in wild, flagrant abuses of the God-given gift - of sex.

• George Putnam : Then, we come to nudist magazines. If they were printed only for the nudist cult, they would never exist. Their circulation would not support the costs of printing!

• George Putnam : This mixture of male and female with - total anatomical detail is typical of these magazines.

• George Putnam : Think then, of the consequences to the inexperienced youth, who in purchasing and studying this material, becomes a pawn of these misfits; these homosexuals, who have a slogan that betrays the evil of the breed: Today's conquest, they say, is tomorrow's competition.

• George Putnam : And here again, an appeal to the sodomist, with a play upon the buttock, the laced, leather garment.

• George Putnam : These publishers know well that once so exposed, the insatiable curiosity of youth will cause him to delve deeper and deeper into this grotesque material, until his utter depravity is complete.

• George Putnam : A single Girlie magazine. In these, as well as the other groups of magazines, the rawest materials can be ordered through the United States Mails.

• George Putnam : News stands publications create a market for illustrated, hard core pornography.

• George Putnam : Perhaps the most insidious, single group of publications, is the cheap pocketbook. In page after page of these so-called "novels", sex organs, positions of intercourse, abnormal sex practices of every kind, are described with intimate physical details. Nothing is left to the imagination. An invitation even is extended to the reader to: Come Join the Fun!

• George Putnam : [Reading from "Sex Jungle"]  What are we alive for except to grab all the kicks we can? Sex - that's a kick. Sure, a damn good one. A guy can't ever get enough of that. Drinking - that's another kick. An okay kick. Marijuana - sure, M's good too, if you don't let it get the upper hand with you. Heroin - H - there is something to be said for that. I tried it. But, Horse isn't such a good kick because it takes more than it gives...

• George Putnam : This warped idea of fun contributed to the fact that one out of every twenty children born in the United States, last year, was illegitimate. The rate of illegitimacy has been steadily climbing and the care of these children cost taxpayers: one billion dollars a year in government aid.

• George Putnam : Sex-mad magazines are helping to create criminals faster than we can build jails to house them.

• George Putnam : Do you want your son enticed into the world of homosexuals? Or, your daughter lured into lesbianism?

• George Putnam : Smut peddlers do not have the right to contaminate our society. This is a nation of laws and you and I have a constitutional guarantee to police protection of our welfare. The law is our weapon.

• George Putnam : A moral decay is spreading to our country and our society. This same type of rot and decay caused 16 of the 19 major civilizations to vanish from the earth. Magnificent Egypt, Classical Greece, Imperial Rome all crumbled away - not because of the strength of the aggressor, but, because of moral decay from within.

• George Putnam : We are in a unique position to cure our own ills. Our Constitution was written by men who put their trust in God and founded a government based on His laws. These laws are on our side. We have a Constitutional guarantee of protection against obscenity.

• George Putnam : We know that once a person is perverted, it is practically impossible for that person to adjust to normal attitudes in regards sex.