Obscenity

Breaking: Max Hardcore Sentenced To Forty Six Months In Jail It's a tough time to be obscene — at least if your name is Max Hardcore. The notorious pornographer has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and fined more than $1.4 million. (avn.com, more at xbiz.com)

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Porn Fight: John Stagliano Vs. The World
The back-and-forth legal maneuvering between our government and our nation's pornographers may not get you hot, even if it gets you bothered—it even makes our eyes glaze over sometimes. But it is occasionally instructive to keep tabs on who is being put in jail with your tax dollars. It's also hard to have a First Amendment debate over a title like "Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice" without giggling, but it helps that the Supreme Court has no sense of humor. More »

10:20 AM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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Latest by Brian47: Really great interview, thanks for posting that... I've been tracking this story on adultdvdtalk.com since Tricia Devereaux broke the news more »
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Boobs Vs. Ice Cream: What Would Your City Rather Lick?
You may remember a couple of months back when an indicted pornographer wanted to use the "Google Defense" to prove his innocence in a obscentiy trial. As a legal question, obscenity is usually defined as some sort of violation of acceptable "community standards." But how do you know what your community finds acceptable? Ask Google, of course! If people in your community enjoy searching for and reading about "butt sex," then the back door must be acceptable—right? More »

4:40 PM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
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Latest by josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you: @B: I was thrown by penis v. kitty. Considering the usage of kitty to mean pussy when meaning pussy as more »
Four and a half years after that infamous "wardrobe malfunction" that shook the world, a federal appeals court has overturned the $550,000 fine the FCC slapped on CBS for showing the entire planet Janet Jackson's right boob ... which means that the sum total of the entire saga is officially nothing. Our long national nightmare is (finally? please?) over. (abcnews.go.com)

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Coming For A Cause: Just About Everybody You've Ever Masturbated To In "Defend Our Porn"

Whether you want to donate to the Evil Angel legal defense fund or spend 10 glorious, disturbing, jaw-dropping, delightful, and carnivorous hours with the likes of Belladonna, Sasha Grey, Sandra Romain, Eva Angelina, and Tricia Devereaux (or, I imagine, both), you will love "Defend Our Porn." More »

9:20 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Gram Ponante
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Latest by Gram Ponante: Yup. If you can find one county where a jury will call it obscene, you're all set. more »
Remember that new law in Indiana which required adult stores to register with the government and pay a fee to stay in business? Unsurprisingly—or surprisingly, depending how optimistic you are about such things—a federal judge has ruled against it, citing that it was broad enough to effect "unquestionably lawful, nonobscene, nonpornographic materials being sold to adults." Which is good news for anyone trying to buy a copy of, say, Juggs anywhere in Indiana—you are just reading it for the articles, right? (suntimes.com)

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The obscenity trial of Ray Guhn Productions in Florida has ended in a plea deal—interestingly, the defendants pled guilty to financial and racketeering charges, not the obscenity ones—which means we won't get to see the "Google apple pie orgy" defense in action. That's too bad, because we really love pie. (pnj.com) MORE »

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Obscenity A La Mode? Max Hardcore might have been getting all the attention lately, but another obscenity trial in Florida is currently underway where the defense is using Google search stats to prove that "community standards" are a lot broader than some people might think: apparently, searching for the term "orgy" is just as all-American as searching for "apple pie". (No word on people who search for "apple pie orgy", though—maybe even community standards have their limits.) (freespeechcoalition.com + nytimes.com)

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So yeah, that judge's not-so-secret porn stash the media has been all a-flutter about the past few days? Totally lame—even those painted cow babes were not nearly as interesting as we'd hoped they would be. Then again, we'd much rather look at tboring stuff like this that the material he was supposed to be sitting on that upcoming trial about. We're not that blasé about smut, you know. (10zenmonkeys.com)

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Dirty, Dirty Justice A judge who plays with a penis pump while in the courtroom is just a perv, but a judge who maintains a publically accessible personal website with photos of "masturbation, public sex and contortionist sex ... a slide show striptease featuring a transsexual, and a folder that contained a series of photos of women's crotches as seen through snug fitting clothing or underwear" sounds totally like someone we'd want to hang out with (even if that whole bodypainted-women-as-cows thing sounds a little dodgy). Hey, if that obscenity trial he's supposed to sit on doesn't work out maybe we can hire him to hire to work at Fleshbot? Sounds like he knows where to find the good stuff. (latimes.com - thanks SG)

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