Lasse moved to the University of Milan in 1961. He admitted at the time to paying for fourteen abortions in the previous five years. "Fourteen mistakes out of two thousand ejaculations is not bad going." (Porn Gold) On September 20, 1961, he read in the newspaper that a young man, with the same surname as one of his Milanese girlfriends, had been arrested in Genoa by the Italian police for carrying three suitcases of pornography bought in Monte Carlo. Lasse called his girlfriend who, in tears, said that the man arrested was her older brother Dino. Braun suggested to Dino's lawyer, inexperienced in matters of "obscenity," a line of defense that Lasse had researched six years previously for his doctorate in Law thesis at Milan State University: Representation of licit sex cannot be considered illicit. After getting Dino out of jail, Braun chased up the lad's source of porn to a tobacco shop in Brussels, Belgium. A ne'er do well son of a diplomat, Lasse belonged to the Italian Diplomatic Corps in Austria. Able to speak five European languages, Braun drove through customs with impugnity in a Mercedes with DC license plates. Operating out of his home in the Netherlands, he traveled around the world from 1962 to 1967 distributing explicit books and magazines.