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XXX pornography is the American way, it's the American dream
Never forget: Pornography is as American as apple pie
Danny Acosta
Issue date: 3/27/07 Section: Opinion
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The amazing businessmen that bring Americans the joy of big moustaches and lipstick lesbians are constantly under attack. 1998 was more than the year Kobe Tai brought Americans delectable romps like Where the Boys Aren't 10 , Very Bad Things, Scenes from a Bar, Oriental Lust, and Mission Erotica, it was also the year of the Child Online Protection Act. The act claimed to shield the kiddies from the "questionable" content of the internet.
Thank God we have judges that still believe in pornography.
Judge Lowell Reed of Philadelphia recently overturned it as "unconstitutional." He deemed that the act protected children through unconstitutional means-the detriment of free speech and media-and would not stand by it. The forefathers had it right when they granted Americans free speech because free speech can also mean delightful dirty talk.
Violating the act was punishable by $50,000 and offenders could serve up to six months in prison. The law, which included commerical sites like Salon.com, was never enforced because it was believed to be reversed soon thereafter. It was. And now we can all bask in the glory of three little people and a six foot tall blonde with unnaturally large milk secreting glands.
This law was a prime example of political positioning. Election time politicans throw out some public-friendly law that play on the fears of parents. This often results in unnecessary or unconstitutional law. It is the "Would somebody please think of the children?!" hysteria that diminishes our freedom to share what happens in the one-bedroom apartment of a swinging inter-racial couple from New Jersey.
Defenders of the law claimed content filters were inadequate. They also claimed parents should not have the responsibility of monitoring what their children do on the internet. This porous argument proves the law was just an attack against the moral fabric of America-pornography.
If two, three, or 500 consenting adults want to film themselves engaging in sticky acts or watch movies like Welcome to My Face, then so be it. Pornography is constantly employed as a scapegoat. It is an easy target, like Jenna Jameson's face. The reality is simple: supply and demand. People want porn. Thus it is to be supplied. And unjust laws inhibit that economic principle.
So, let's keep the flesh roads open.