Event Details

January 01, 1958

Description

Pornography becoming legal; narrator invents term 'soft-core porn'

Participants (1)

Name Type Mentions
Narrator person 232 View Entity

Source Documents (1)

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015420.jpg

Memoir Excerpt / Narrative / Evidence Document • 1.31 MB
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This document appears to be a page from a memoir or essay included in House Oversight evidence files. The narrator (contextually likely Paul Krassner) discusses their claim to inventing the term 'soft-core porn' in the magazine 'The Realist' in the late 1950s. It also describes a gathering on New Year's Eve 1967 at Abbie and Anita Hoffman's apartment to plan a counter-convention to the Democratic Party's event in Chicago.

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Event Metadata

Type
Unknown
Location
USA
Significance Score
5/10
Participants
1
Source Documents
1
Extracted
2025-11-20 20:29

Additional Data

Source
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015420.jpg
Date String
1958

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