Feds watch huge amounts of fetish porn to protect U.S. citizens from graphic depictions of sex
(posted by jackson)
Since the early 1990s I have appreciated the (often hilarious) way Susie Bright makes fun of those prosecutors who focus their energy on porn. The newest trend in anti-pornography crusades suggests a breakthrough (so says Susie) in the way anti-pornographers view female orgasm:
Deep in the bowels of Washington, a federal US Attorney is watching porn videos. Lots of porn videos. They are looking for crime, they’re looking for a cause, a way to bring back integrity to the US Attorney’s Office.
…But this is old news. What’s interesting is that the screening room hasn’t shut down. The feds are watching more porn than ever. The ones that freak them out the most aren’t the hard cocks, the interracial sex, the homosexual taboos that so often frequented past federal investigations. That’s so 80s.
…In Milk Nymphos, Storm Squirters, and Fetish Fanatic 5 , the one common element is women simulating orgasm, and demonstrating such by squirting up a storm. The scenes are surreal, they’re so inauthentic, but what’s remarkable, in legal history, is that the ostensible pleasure on screen is depicting the thrill of female orgasm.
I think we have a breakthrough here. The feds want to make visible female excitement an obscenity.
May 4th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I suspect that being an FBI pr0n inspector would get boring after a while. OTOH, being an Iranian cop would fucking rock! Every spring the Iranian cops go out and look for women who are showing too much skin. They are responsible for stopping these women, talking to them, and getting their contact info.
Middle Eastern women are hot, so I bet a lot of single guys would gladly take that job. I keep telling my brother to apply. No, he isn’t Iranian, but he’s having trouble finding a girlfriend, so he should be willing to explore all options.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I think the chief of police in Tehran got busted in a brothel recently. If that’s what you’re into, being a police officer puts you in a great position to extort.
Coincidentally, I just put up a post on Iran here.
Chip Smith calls one of Stagliano’s films (the subject of the obscenity case) a “seriously great (if unheralded) confessional documentary”. Could that be used as evidence that he does not appeal purely to the prurient interest?