Talk:Ed Lange (photographer)

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I've amended an assertion that Ed Lange was involved in child pornography. Unless Lange has criminal convictions for such activity (in which case these should be cited in the article), such a statement is not NPOV and could well be libellous.

Also, the only external links in this article are to sites critical of Lange. 217.155.20.163 14:19, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I have since learned that Ed Lange is dead (and has been for over a decade), so the comment about libel probably doesn't apply! The NPOV issue still stands, though. 217.155.20.163 14:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I did not add the info about Ed Lange being involved in the publication of Nudist Moppets, howeever I did change the information regarding Nudist Moppets being prosecutable material. Here's one reference page for that assertion. --Nikkicraft 20:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * here's the related text.

1/6/01

VancouverSun.com reports:

A longtime Vancouver pornography importer and distributor is now exporting to the U.S. a potentially deadly chemical that is widely thought to enhance sexual pleasure but is illegal in both Canada and the States if sold for that purpose.

Tony Perry is one of two directors of AAA Packaging of Delta, which has shipped hundreds of thousands of units of isobutyl nitrite to customers in almost every state in the United States, according to documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.

A [1973?] report prepared by CLEU -- the now-defunct Coordinated Law Enforcement Unit, a joint operation of the RCMP and municipal forces formed to fight organized crime -- noted that sex stores were selling magazines grouped according to such subject areas as "bondage," "homosexual," "heterosexual," and "kiddie porn."

It was the latter that caused then-Vancouver Mayor Jack Volrich to take matters in his own hands. Magazines called Moppets and Nudist Moppets were being displayed in city stores, and Volrich said those magazines crossed the line.

The Moppets magazines were distributed by Johnson and Franklin. Volrich said at the time it was difficult for the city to deal with magazines that contained adult nudity. "But this (Moppets) can only be designed for people who have perverse habits," the mayor said.

Volrich went downtown, visited the stores selling Moppets and ordered the store owners to remove the offending books from their shelves, using as his leverage provisions of the city charter that prohibit businesses from "gross misconduct."

Moppets, the mayor said, "depict children in a very gross manner." The store-keepers complied.

Contacted by reporters, Perry said all his product was cleared by Canada Customs. "But if somebody in authority at the local level has any objection, they should just let us know and we'll withdraw it," Perry said at the time. "I'm just trying to make a living, not break the law." He added: "I order from catalogues -- it's not up to me and neither is it proper for me to check the validity of my suppliers."

The suppliers of Moppets would not have appreciated being "checked out." The Moppets magazines were published and distributed by a company called Lynden Distributors of Van Nuys, California, a CLEU investigation determined. The company was controlled by the late Reuben Sturman, a mobster from Cleveland with ties to New York crime families.

Sturman is also credited with inventing the peep booth, by enclosing coin-operated projectors in a small booth with a screen and a door that could be locked. Tony Perry had several peep booths in his stores. Sturman, according to several U.S. crime probes, supplied booths to adult-book store owners free of charge, in return for half the receipts.


 * also note that Sturman was an active Southern California nudist. --Nikkicraft 20:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Part of the controversey was that Lange's publishing house was under contract to publish the monthly magazine of the (then) American Sunbathing Association (ASA), while at the same time Lange was publishing a variety of voyeuristic / quasi-pornographic "nudie" magazines which catered to a different audience than that professed to be associated with the clean-living / clothes-free audience of ASA members. Paulburnett 02:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Sam Brody Quote
I deleted the Sam Brody quote because it just that. I think a verifiable source like a news article would be good. Anyone can say someone said a thing about someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.127.124.14 (talk) 14:42, 5 September 2013 (UTC)