Word: mishkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Headaches. That job seemed even more unavoidable in the second case, in which Edward Mishkin appealed a three-year New York sentence for publishing 140 weird -little books (Sex Switch, Raw Dames, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism-typically spiced by scenes of naked girls whipping one another. Mishkin's New York lawyer, Emanuel Redfield, confronted the Supreme Court with a new headache: "Only obscene books can be proscribed. Are sadism and masochism synonyms for obscenity? If so, there is no end to the literature that may be prohibited...