Spend up to a year in prison for selling a movie

[mongo]

Proprietor, adult store indicted
BY DEB GRUVER
The Wichita Eagle

A monthlong grand jury investigation into seven adult shops in Wichita now centers on one movie, one store and one man.

Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston announced Tuesday that a grand jury had indicted Priscilla's owner Bob Floyd of Oklahoma City and one of his two Wichita stores on one count of promoting obscenity, a class A misdemeanor. It is punishable by up to a year in jail and a maximum $2,500 fine.

Priscilla's stores -- known for their jaunty theme song, "Where fun and fantasy meet," --are popular places to buy gifts for bachelorette and bachelor parties.

The indictment is against the Priscilla's store on West Kellogg and centers on a DVD about oral sex, judging from the movie's title. The 120-minute movie from studio Extreme 2.0 is available on the Internet, but a spot check Tuesday afternoon didn't find other stores that carry it locally.

more http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/13289426.htm

At least in Kansas it is a misdeanor. Here in Ohio it is a felony.

I'm actually suprised that Priscilla's carries Extreme's videos at all. They are more of the "new model" adult stores - well lit, selling lingerie and shoes, toys and movies. The store in Columbus really doesn't have that many movies. My store is smaller than they are and I carry many, many more movies.

[niyad]

1. HOW much of the taxpayers' money have they wasted on this nonsense?

[jobycom]

2. Just insane

Why do "community standards" negate the choice of consenting adults? I can understand laws regulating the porn filmmaking industry from the point of the safety of the actors (underage actors, health concerns, etc), or preventing non-adults from buying the stuff, but why the government has anything to do with the sale or distribution of this stuff, I don't get.

Reminds me of the Michael Irvin case. He's accused of owning a drug pipe. He wasn't using the pipe, he had no drugs on him, there was no evidence he had ever used the pipe, and there is no evidence it was even his (it was found in his car). Anyone can walk into several head shops and legally buy one of these pipes. But if you get caught with one in your car, you can be charged for owning it. Legal to buy, not to own.

Frankly, I find much of the filth that religious people spread around much more offensive than DVDs with oral sex. I don't like either all that much, but I'd rather my children watch porno than read the hate-filled religious tracts portraying Muslims as suicide bombers or witches as baby-killing cannibals.

And they wonder why our courts are bogged down and our jails are full.

[ucmike]

3. "community standards" is nonsense.

i heard a discussion a few years ago about an adult store owner whose store was being shut down because of "community standards". he argued that if his store didn't meet community standards he would have gone out of business. the argument from the other side was that he was bringing in outsiders with his ads and such and that his customers were from outside the community.

he got pay-per-view records from the local cable provider that showed that his community bought as much ppv porn-or more- as anywhere else in the country. i don't know what the outcome of the case was.

[mongo]

7. And the store is the de facto arbitor of "community values"

But there are no clear standards on what is and isn't legal. So if you guess wrong, you go to jail.

And I am also supposed to know the contents of all 1700 movies in my ever changing inventory.

It really is an impossible position to be put in by the governement.

[MountainLaurel]

8. And not just in this context

Since it also applies to things like censorship in school libraries. Which always amused because you have to wonder about whose community they're using to define it. For instance, the community I grew up in included people who wouldn't let their kids trick or treat because Halloween was a Satanic celebration as well as people who knew which pharmacy in town sold "marital aids," people whose family business was selling drugs, and so on. Who gets to define the standard?

[FreedomAngel82]

4. It is ridiculous

I could care less what someone does in the privacy of their own home between adults. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone and isn't illegal than why should I care? So are they going to ban porno from HBO now too? :shrug:

[NYCGirl]

5. Your thinking is absolutely right, but with all due respect, the stuff

they show on HBO has nothing whatsoever to do with "porno."

And sending someone to prison for a year for selling a film, even if it is something by Extreme, is absolutely frightening.

[walldude]

9. Really? Ever watch "Real Sex"?

Or that America Undercover series they did on the porn industry? While I don't personally find anything pornographic about it I'd bet the fundies do...

[mongo]

6. And porn is just the opposite

Legal to own, possibly illegal to sell.

How can you legally own something yet not be able to sell it?

[mndfler]

10. land of the free?