Meese Report

The report also documents what the committee found to be the harmful effects of pornography and connections between pornographers and organized crime.

The report was criticized by many inside and outside the pornography industry, calling it biased, not credible, and inaccurate.

[1][2] The report along with revised prosecution tactics under Attorney General Meese was effective in reducing pornography markets in some jurisdictions prior to the Internet.

[5] In fact, the list of purported distributors had been identified by Donald Wildmon, the head of the conservative Christian advocacy organization that later became the American Family Association.

[5][6] The letters triggered several companies to remove such common soft-core pornography magazines as Playboy and Penthouse from store shelves.