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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Problem is nobody knows.
Obscenity is the US is one of the few laws that you do not know if you have possibly broken until twelve people tell you so.
If I kill someone, accidently or on purpose I still know I killed someone and the laws are clear either way. If I film that person, I have no idea if it is obscene or not until twelve other people tell me so.
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Sure.. obscenity is rarely defined as being X act or whatever. It is very hard to define and hence the jury. Sadly, that is part of the course for being in the adult business - always has been.
Some countries have tried to define it - eg.. "that which has a tendency to corrupt and deprave" (na.. don't laugh). In many ways, that can be a good definition for the adult biz - who can judge what will corrupt or deprave others??
OK.. Anecdote... Done the usual adult defenses over the years. Times move and along with them the standards for obscenity. It was not that long ago we were sitting in court discussing a well-endowed girl featured in a pathetic movie. Believe me - according to the prosecution her tits were obscene.
It came the time in the hearing to see the actual evidence (the movie)... the court windows were blocked out and the movie was run. First holdup was the judge could not get a good view - so the screen was adjusted
They started running the movie in the darkened court room - all that were heard from the jury area and where counsel were seated - "Oh.. nice tits!", "She's got a great pair of tits!"
The judge did not approve of these comments - but, who knows, may have enjoyed the show.
That case was more funny than anything and involved, in part, defense counsel (his Dad was a well-known comedy entertainer) reading works of "artisitic merit" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and with gusto explaining how the miller's wife stuck her ass out of the window and had a poker stuffed up. There were no convictions.