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You have Lee Harvey Oswald, Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, Jim Jones, Osama bin Laden, etc. But none of them rivals the evil of Willy Strauss / Jens Theander. Just for a background, pornography was illegal in the United States from 1873 until 1957 after the Roth v. United States ruling and the sexual revolution of the 50s and 60s. This paved the way for child pornography.

In 1969 following the decriminalization of pornography in Denmark, Willy Strauss had the brilliant idea of starting a new magazine called Bambina Sex that same year. He, along with the help of Jens Theander of Color Climax, started an industry, leading to hundreds of magazines and issues being produced, and the works they featured were submitted from people all around the world, including the United States. He even encouraged people to send him their smut so he would publish it. It was during this time that you could walk into a sex shop and buy what was essentially child pornography or have it sent to you through mail. Eventually, American lawmakers caught wind of this in 1977 after a media storm and activism from feminists to criminalize it. Eventually, in January 1978, the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1977 was passed by Congress following the arrest of adult bookstore owner Paul Ferber in New York and it was criminalized nationwide and later, worldwide.