The industry is all a-shudder. The writing's on the wall.
It's funny the DOJ let "2257" out the door without applying a bit of
marketing magic to the name.
The books are full of laws with female names. They pay tribute to a case of terrible victimhood, and they help galvanize public support.
Could it be that they actually DON'T EXPECT to find many underage performers in Adult?
From
AVNOnline:
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In all, in the last 20 years, a total of four underage performers using deliberately falsified IDs have been uncovered, beginning with Traci Lords, and including Alexandria Quinn and gay performer Jeff Browning ? an astonishingly small number considering the total number of performers who have passed through the industry during that period.
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Could it be that the DOJ actually DON'T have grand PR ambitions for this law?
Google News Search returns fewer than 100 results for "2257" and
Yahoo News Search but 54!
There's no question this thing became a law for the lawmakers talking-up all "
the victims to be saved" on Capitol Hill.
Yet, here we are -- obsessing on the
letter of the law, when all around us there is ample evidence that we,
the industry, are doing a fine job at keeping under-age performers out of porn --
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