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Least impressive pornography survey
The least impressive effort to study pornography in Britain was The Longford Report. In the
main this report is
abysmal poorly argued, uninformed by a mature grasp of human sexuality, bereft of supporting
evidence, etc. We
need spend no more time on it here. What is surprising is that this publication should contain a
nice little appendix
(Appendix V) by Maurice Yaffé as a Research Survey and Bibliography. This
appendix, tucked away on pages
460 to 498, is quite out of tone with the rest of the report. In fact the conclusion undermines
all Longford's
efforts - "In the present state of knowledge it is not possible to draw any useful conclusions
which might be
applied to this problem and related issues..."