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Obscenity: From Hicklin To Hicklin?, Frank W. Smith Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

Modern advances in printing, distribution and advertisement have accentuated an old problem of social and legal significance-what, if anything, should be done to control obscene publications. Increased concern with the problem has been shown not only by organizations active in this area, by numerous articles and books which have recently been written, but also by the courts, highlighted by the recent Ginzburg, Mishkin' and 'Fanny Hill' cases. These cases have been hailed by some as a license for a full scale war on the "smut peddlers" and by others as a caution to proceed slowly. The obscenity problem brings into …