The village shop seemed to be a bastion of respectability but those in the know could obtain some very questionable under-the-counter material.
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Under-the-counter
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The frequency of under-the-counter selling is most difficult to ascertain.
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1973, Robert Wallace Winslow, Crime in a Free Society: Selections from the President's Commission on Law Traffic and distribution of under-the-counter materials appears to be a very minor ... The total market in under-the-counter materials is estimated to be ...
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1988, Gordon Hawkins and Franklin E. Zimring, Pornography in a Free Society, of material classified as "under-the-counter" was being openly exhibited and openly sold.
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