Judge Rules 'Girls Gone Wild' Is Not Porn

Associated Press ^ | Mar. 09, 2004 | AP

[Redcloak]

Saying that it isn't porn is going to put a damper on their sales!

[WOSG]

Oh really? You think my wife wouldnt mind me watching it then?

[Redcloak]

The title's wording is "interesting". At first, I thought that the judge wasn't pleased with his order. I can just picture him berating the defendant:"This isn't porn! Here, lemme show ya some porn!" ...then reaching into a drawer to pull out a video tape in a plain, brown wrapper.

[GeronL]

I think judges have gone way off the reservation.

[unspun]

From dictionary.com:

6 entries found for pornography.

por·nog·ra·phy    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (pôr-ngr-f)
n.

1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
2. The presentation or production of this material.
3. Lurid or sensational material: ?Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the... pornography of the era? (Morris Dickstein).

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[French pornographie, from pornographe, pornographer, from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes  : porn, prostitute; see per-⁵ in Indo-European Roots + graphein, to write; see -graphy.]

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por·nogra·pher n.
porno·graphic (pôrn-grfk) adj.
porno·graphi·cal·ly adv.

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Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

pornography

( P )  pornography: log in for this definition of pornography and other entries in Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, available only to Dictionary.com Premium members.

Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

pornography

\Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a harlot + -graphy.] 1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

pornography

n : illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire [syn: porno, porn]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

pornography

<application> Still or moving images, usually of women, in
varying states of nudity, posing or performing erotic acts
with men, women, animals, machines, or other props. Some say
it degrades women, some say it corrupts young boys (who
down-load it from the World-Wide Web or exchange it on
floppy disks). Most of it is in the form of JPEG images.
There are many sites on the World-Wide Web offering porn of
all sorts, almost always for a subscription. It is said that
these are a driving force in the evolution of new technology
and techniques for the web. Advertisments for them certainly
constitute a significant proportion of all spam. There are
even pornographic computer games, an early example being Mac
Playmate.

Beware - many institutions, particularly universities, have
strict rules against their computers and networks being used
to transfer or store such things, and you might get corrupted.

(2002-03-08)

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2003 Denis Howe

pornogra

[cyborg]

Saying GGW is child porno is really insipid. It is soft core porn at best.

[bonfire]

Anyone see "Curb Your Enthusiasm" last week?

[ppaul]

Judges Gone Wild

[spetznaz]

Florida's child pornography law makes the depiction of "sexual conduct" illegal and defines that term to include physical contact. There was no physical contact in the video.

So, in Florida, someone can have pictures of kids as long as there is no 'physical contact' in the pictures? Huh? This is silly!

[thegreatbeast]

So it's okay to watch/tape underage girls? Business ought to boom, eh?

[xm177e2]

So it's okay to watch/tape underage girls?

The ruling certainly seems to state that it's legal. Not only is it legal to tape them flashing their breasts, it's apparently legal to knowingly seek out underage girls to get them to flash their breasts for pornography (because that's what the GGW film crew was accused of doing). This is insane.

[weegee]

Moreso, it is legal to ask minors to show their breasts (even in the absence of a camera)?

Can minors be "exotic" dancers since that is art and not sex?

Can a minor sign a release to appear topless in a video? I thought only people over 18 could do that (without a parental cosignature)?

Are all of those Traci Lords videos legal now? What if there were shot in states where the age of consent for sex is 16?

[NYCVirago]

Prosecutors had tried to prevent the copying on grounds the videotape showing a girl "flashing" her breasts was illegal child pornography. Florida's child pornography law makes the depiction of "sexual conduct" illegal and defines that term to include physical contact. There was no physical contact in the video.

This is a bad ruling. Would "Girls Gone Wild" be considered porn if there were only adults in it? Probably not. But underaged girls changes the whole equation, and federal law is pretty clear on that.

[weegee]

Perhaps they need to be prosecuted under federal law in addition to these Florida law cases they face.

Even a clothed minor can be shot in a "lacivious" manner according to some rulings.

[Keith in Iowa]

Bill O'Reilly is probably going to wet himself in outrage over this one...

[phenn]

You think the judges might have a slightly different view of these videos if it were their daughters being taped?

[capt. norm]

During Spring Break in Panama City Beach (where I am...and it's S.B. now) you will see almost as much exposed 'skin' on Front Beach Road as you'd ever expect to see in that movie.

The traffic moves at a pace slower than walking and the female occupants of the vehicles expose themselves for beads.

Hey, they claim the settlers bought Manhattan with beads, so things haven't really changed that much.

[kt56]

I'm from Missouri, the Show Me State..pictures???

[atomicpossum]

So, it's okay to sell videos of underage girls in various stages of undress? Oooooookay...........

[BibChr]

"Besides," the judge added, "she's kinda cute."

This is, I think, not good.

Dan