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a "smut selling porn monger" also? 
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Franklin as Author
A few of Franklin's own writings have been categorized as potentially obscene, though none was published under his own name during his lifetime. A federal circuit court judge in a concurring opinion to the 1957 obscenity case United States v. Roth (which became the basis for the landmark Supreme Court case Roth v. United States) cited Franklin's "Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress" and "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker," as two works "which a jury could reasonably find 'obscene,' according to the judge's instructions in the case at bar." The judge concluded, "On that basis, if tomorrow a man were to send those works of Franklin through the mails, he would be subject to prosecution and (if the jury found him guilty) to punishment under the federal obscenity statute."
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http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/22470
