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gans and their operation and the way children
are begotten and born.
Decision of the Court:“ The statute we have to con¬
strue was never thought to bar from the mails
everything which might stimulate sex impulses.
mang useful medical works, would be underthe
** Any incidental tendency to arouse
ban.
sex impulses which such a pamphlet may per¬
haps have is apart from and subordinate to
its main effect
* The direct aim and
the net result is to promote understanding and
self-control.
No case was made for submission to the jury,
and the judgment must therefore be reversed.“
If the courts thus vindicate Madeleine', Made¬
moiselle de Maupin“, “The Well of Loneliness“, and
The Sex Side of Life“, no charge may properly
lie against“Casanova’s Homecoming“.