The Suggestive Postmarks

A publisher and his companies mailed three items: an expensive hardcover magazine with articles about sex, a newsletter on sexual topics, and a book sold as a woman's sexual autobiography. He first asked for mailing rights from two small towns whose names sounded like sexual jokes, so the postmark would be suggestive; when refused, he used a third town with a similar name. His ads promised 'sexual candour'. He was charged on 28 counts of mailing obscene matter. He says the works themselves have value and are not obscene.