Reply #56: Unfortunately, they were not dropped against Pee Wee

[tishaLA]

and it does a disservice to us all that he was convicted. Pee Wee--Paul Reubens--collected old gay pornography, which was most frequently "physique" magazines from the 40s-60s that had pictures of beefy men posing and flexing in skimpy swimsuits and, sometimes, nude. Reubens apparently bought these magazines in BULK because he was such a collector, but one of the lots he bought had some pictures of an underage guy in it--not significantly underage, but underage nonetheless.

It is entirely possible that Reubens never saw the pictures for which he was convicted and, if he did see them, that the underage model wouldn't have registered as underage. One thing is certain: Reubens was not a "pedophile" because, of the thousands of pictures he had, only three were transgressive. It was an overzealous DA in LA who started this and it has implications for all of us if we are worried about civil liberties.

Read the Village Voice piece about it and be scared: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0303,goldstein,41194,1.html