yet another conversation i wish i hadn't had

[phosfate]

Tonight I got to explain to my mother that, contrary to her belief, it is in fact not illegal to make pornography in the United States of America.

I don't know where she gets these ideas.

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[queenoflorien.livejournal.com]

it is in fact not illegal to make pornography in the United States of America.

Nor to market it, blessedly. Lit is in fact not illegal to make pornography in the United States of America.

Nor to market it, blessedly. Lórien owes some of its most prominent community redevelopments to the financial support of a vast, elf-fethishing American audience.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Actually, the way the obscenity laws are written, if it could be proved that a work had no artistic value outside of its pornographic content (which covers a lot of the porn I've seen recently), theoretically it could be banned. The laws just haven't been enforced much at all since the 70's. But they are in place should a really puritanical administration come to power (shudder).