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By the way, I have found that the legal system (in Canada, most likely in the US and other countries as well) has been very slow to catch up with what the community standard of tolerance really is out there. The internet has broadened the boundaries considerably in ten years, but there are still a lot of stuffy old judges and cops that are out of touch with where those boundaries now lay.
One example is the word "Pornography" itself. Most people I know no longer consider simple nudity as porn. Back in the 70's and probably even through much of the 80's they did, hell a mere playboy was described as a pornographic magazine back then. But nowadays for material to qualify as porn in most people's minds it needs to have some further sexual content to it.
The line has moved in our favor, but those who side with the censorists are definitely going to try to push the line back, and sooner or later they're going to push harder than ever. We've already seen that happening, what with recent news of certain webmasters, some of whom are into the more extreme stuff, being arrested, charged and hauled into court.
The fact that the participants are all consenting adults isn't always a winning argument.
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