LibraryTechtonics

interesting article on a porn distributor that went too far, and government backlash:

Legal Threats Stalk Adult Sites
[c/o Wired.com 15 jun '04]

this is a case of one bad apple ruining the basket. there are community standards within the porn industry that everyone tries to follow, so that they can still legally and carefully do their business without much muss and fuss. but the company in this article, and others like them, make hordes more money because they market what’s considered taboo even in their industry, and can cross the line on legality.

one source that porn marketers use is the cambria list, sort of a CYA in an industry that shows as much as possible.

while people don’t want porn in libraries, what people do at home, in my mind, is their business. don’t get me wrong, i don’t believe that the out-of-control degradation stuff should be legal, because i don’t think that pretending to rape someone or pretending to molest a child is any more ok than actually doing it. at the same time, i think that everything from consensual vanilla softcore to bdsm or transsexual content is perfectly fine. and consensual is the key here. the porn industry strives to create a consensual, safe, healthy environment (this is not your 60’s feminist image of porn anymore), and these bad apples draw unnecessary attention, and therefore retrobution, to the rest of the industry.

Tags: government