There has been a number of studies of pornography, notably in Scandinavia, but also in West Germany, Israel, Britain, and America. The most thorough study of pornography is without doubt the one carried out by the Presidential Commission in the U.S. In 1967 the Congress created a Commission to investigate the effects of obscenity and pornography on the people of the United States, each member of the Commission being appointed by President Johnson. The final report was remarkable in that it recommended repeal of obscenity legislation as it related to adults. The findings - that pornography could not be shown to do harm to individuals or to society - would not surprise liberals, who already know as much. The publication of the report occasioned a brief but heated controversy in the U.S. and elsewhere. The President- by now it was Nixon - ignored the report.