ABSTRACT
Charles H. Keating, Jr. loathed smut-peddler Larry Flynt. Keating crusaded against pornography for 30 years and it galled him that Flynt’s Hustler magazine had been founded in Keating’s home town of Cincinnati, Ohio. Citizens for Decent Literature (CDL), which Keating founded in 1958, grew to become the largest antipornography organization in the United States with 300 chapters and 100,000 members. In 1970 alone, Keating traveled 200,000 miles giving dozens of speeches against pornography. Keating testified before several congressional committees and was appointed by President Richard Nixon to serve on the federal Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
