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Porn Stars Deserve Our Respect—Not Just Stormy Daniels - 9th October 2018 The
Republican Party has waged a decade-long war on porn. Its hypocrisy is astonishing. 
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Marlow Stern On
April 8, 2008, a mere six months prior to the launch of The Daily Beast, John
Stagliano and his hardcore-porn production company, Evil Angel, were indicted
on obscenity charges by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. It
was the first such case brought against the adult film industry in over two decades. Stagliano—the
godfather of gonzo porn—and Evil Angel were hit with seven obscenity violations
in total, including selling and distributing “DVDs containing obscene films”
across state lines; “using a common carrier” to deliver said “obscene”
DVDs (i.e. the mail); “engaging in the business of selling or transferring
an obscene film and a movie trailer”; and “using an interactive computer
service to display an obscene movie trailer in a manner available to a person
under 18 years of age,” or posting a XXX trailer online. The adult films
in question were Jay Sin’s Milk Nymphos, Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice
and the trailer to Fetish Fanatic 5, and according to court documents, were said
to contain “numerous scenes of urination, use of enemas and violent bondage”
that “exceeds the bounds of decency.” Stagliano faced up to 32 years
in prison and $7 million in fines. The
obscenity charges were the byproduct of the Bush administration’s Obscenity
Prosecution Task Force, a unit established in 2005 by Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales in order to effectively wage war on hardcore pornography. “Obviously,
fighting terrorism and keeping the people safe from attack is our number-one priority,
but it doesn’t mean that we can’t also do the other things that we’ve
done for a long time, which is protect the border, keep people from robbing banks
and white-collar fraud, as well as obscenity,” U.S. Attorney John E. Sutton
remarked. *click
here for full article and multimedia (The
Daily Beast)
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