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LA Porn Crackdown

2001-07-12 17:47:40+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I've said before that L.A. is what would happen if you dropped a whole lot of money on a midwestern city; middle America taken to an extreme. According to this Salon Article on LAPD obscenity crackdowns that city is Cincinati... The article is also the obligatory Adam Glasser/Seymore Butts, talks about "bukkake", and while there's nothing new here does give the usual good arguments asking why this is not protected speech.

Sex in the bedroom may have gotten wilder but, Takeshita asserts, that doesn't make movies featuring provocative sexual content any less obscene when distributed. "What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home is between them," he says. "As soon as that activity is distributed publicly, that's where obscenity statutes come into practice."

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