Reply #61: Actually, the legal adult industry grew to what it is today under

[mongo]

Clinton. Under Reagan and Bush Sr, there were prosecutions, and many legitimate companies went out of business.

When Clinton took office, he retooled the justice depts obscenity unit to remove it's focus from ADULT entertainment and onto CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.

There was not a single prosecution of adult obscenity from the feds during the entire Clinton Administration. Bush jr has once again focused on the adult industry, and there have been 20-30 prosecutions against ADULT PORNOGRAPHY. They have been going against mainly small internet operators, who are into fetishes way outside the mainstream (mostly scat fetishists), and there recent famous case against Extreme Assoc, where the federal judge in Pittsburgh declared the obscenity laws unconstitutional and threw the case out of court. The govt appeal is on the fast track to the appeals court. If the lower courts ruling is held up by the appeal court, look for many more prosecutions in different districts - to cause conflicting decisions in different parts of the country. They will try to time the point at which it reaches the Supreme Court to be when they have a conservative majority again.