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‘Hell, it’s pornography’
“If nudity offends you, do not enter," the
sign warns the two women who cautiously
enter Adult Books on Franklin Boulevard.
At first they both stare at the floor to avoid
the overtly sexual items that jumped out at
them, so to speak.
But their modesty soon gives way to
curiosity.
A soft-spoken young man sits smiling
behind a glass case that displays a wide
assortment of sexual novelties. The older
woman walks to the counter while the other
woman giggles at the novelties displyed on
the wall.
“Do you have any books that could ac
tually help my husband and my sex life?"
she asks timidly.
“I might,’’ owner Mitch Hutchinson
answers. “What are you looking for?"
After she describes her problem, he pulls
out a few sex manuals with plastic covers
that contain graphic photos and explana
tions.
“I don’t think that's what I’m looking for,"
she says, flipping the pages “I don’t like
this kind of thing.”
“I think I understand what you’re looking
for, and to be honest, you won’t find it
here,” Hutchinson says, advising her to try
the public library. There’s not much
demand for those sorts of books, he says.
Adult Books carries magazines featuring
most sexual fantasies, including gay sex
and explicit bondage. "Kiddy porn’’
(magazines picturing nude persons under
18-years-old) and bestiality (people having
sex with animals) are violations of the law.
Novelties include dildos, pornographic
playing cards, French ticklers, love oils and
gags — such as a penis passifier for the
baby in the family.
He also sells movies, greeting cards and
T-shirts.
Hutchinson doesn’t hesitate explaining
why he’s in the business. It’s the money.
“Let’s face it, that’s what everyone who has
a business is in it for.”
He doesn’t read the material that he calls
“literary garbage.” But Hutchinson says he
is helpful and doesn’t judge his customers.
People from all walks of life come into the
store, he says. Some are lonely, some cur
ious, some bored with their marital sex.
Some buy magazines, some buy novels and
some buy gadgets, and “they're having fun
with it.”
Some magazines show violent sex. But
Hutchinson says people who fantasize their
perversions “maybe won’t have to go out
and live them.”
“The person that does it (sexual violence)
was going to do it anyhow. You’ve got to lay
the blame on the individual,” he says.
Two theories apply to violent porno
graphy, says Marcia Kraus, coordinator of
the University Women’s Referral Center.
The first explains that pornographic mater
ial is cathartic — that fantasies act in place
of reality.
The other theory explains that people
react from what they see.
Sex material that illustrates mutuality
between two people can be helpful, Kraus
says. But material that shows one person
doing sex to another is pornography. This
emphasizes women as objects that "men
can derive pleasure from,” Kraus says.
Because the woman is shown merely as a
body and not a whole person, it dehuman
izes them.
Showing "sex as mechanical, cold, and
calculative takes the totality away from it,”
Kraus says, and "makes it organ-to-organ
instead of person-to-person.”
Pornography that pictures bondage per
petuates the myth that women enjoy being
suppressed in sex, she says. Continual
exposure to such material legitimizes this
concept.
A Eugene psychologist, who asked not to
be identified, says that since adult book
stores are considered unacceptable in
society, the atmosphere perpetuates the
idea that sex is dirty
"To hell with it, it’s pornography," says
Hutchinson. "If you don't want it, don’t buy
it.”
He says he supplies products at a profit,
keeps his books and pays taxes like any
business.
But this same book store was closed in
June 1979 under different ownership when
Lane County Circuit Court Judge Edwin
Allen ruled the store was a public nuisance
Allen alleged the store’s owners allowed
sexual acts between men while viewing
coin-operated movies in enclosed booths.
The owners, Daniel Cosset and Thomas
Shaw, both of Portland, were permanently
enjoined from allowing "lewd activity" in the
store. The order also read that the owners
couldn’t use the premises for one year
unless they posted a $62,500 bond. The suit
was civil, not criminal.
The bond wasn’t posted and the store
remained closed for more than a year. In
September 1980, Hutchinson leased the
store from the previous owners and began
the current business without the coin-oper
ated arcades
Hutchinson also applied in September for
a licence to operate 24 coin-operated movie
arcade machines. The city has yet to decide
on the license application.
The city is moving slowly on the issue
because it wants to be sure the same of
fenses aren’t repeated, Eugene Police in
vestigator Mel Olson says
Clear-cut violations of Oregon's obsceni
ty laws, such as bestiality and "kiddy porn"
are easier to enforce than touchier issues
involving constitutional guarantees of free
expression
In 1973 the U S Supreme Court ruled that
local community standards should deter
mine what material is obscene and
therefore not protected by the constitution.
Because Eugene hasn’t established a
community standard, Eugene police of
ficers rely on state statutes to determine
what materials are against the law
Oregon statutes already prohibit kiddy
porn, beastiality and live shows. It also
prohibits sale of "obscene” material to
minors.
Another statute declares material obs
cene and illegal if it depicts in a "patently
offensive manner” sadomasochistic abuse
or sexual conduct.
Olson says police officers only file reports
with the district attorney's office when a
community member complains or the ma
terial is "obviously" obscene and unlawful.
Story by NancyAnn Lofgren
Photos by Steve Dykes
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