Obscenity Prosecutions : Are You Next?
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If the prosecution of milder adult sites is increasing then the people who make their income from BDSM sites with stories and images will be more likely to find themselves under federal idictment.
Pressure against the industry increased last month with a landmark lawsuit that appears to target a somewhat milder grade of porn. The Justice Department issued an obscenity indictment against JM Productions and Five Star Video over four porn DVDs, one featuring bukkake (NSFW) and another that reportedly simulates torturous oral sex to satirize the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The defendants face a maximum sentence of five years for each of several obscenity counts.
In the new prosecution, the government is “getting closer to the center” and moving away from the most extreme content, said Connor Young, president of the porn webmaster resource site YNOT.com. …