those new laws?

i hope this is the right place to put this. i'm sorry if it's not.

i'm doing a report in school on the new additions to obscenity laws and how they pertain to the adult industry. and i was wondering where, specifically, the details about the obscene stuff are. all i was able to find were lots of pages about the new documentation law (which is silly, but not a reason to take down bondage and fetishy stuff)
can anybody help?

There aren't any new laws. Just some slight efforts to enforce those already on the books.

oh. so the anti-porn sqad was just created to randomly crack down on 'deviants'?

More or less. Except I wouldn't call it randomly. They're looking for legit offenders. Besides the squad itself really isn't much. The numbers I've read is somewhere between 5 - 10 agents.

[Edited on Feb 22, 2006 by Penfold]

looks like there is a 'dedicated squad' in DC of 10 and everywhere else, they are free to do what they want, as long as it doesn't take away from more important issues.

???

agents in other offices (outside of dc) can persue the porn thing if they want, but only if it doesn't stop them from... i don't know, stopping REAL crime.

We're not talking about simple porn here, we're talking about sick violent shit here. Porn that involves things like beatings, defication, at least borderline rape, etc.

Or you know... stories.

Here's how it affected SG. Last item in the list.

I still call bullshit on that little item, but that discussion's been played out.