[madmaximus]

I would also like to see obscenity prosecuted again,someday. Pornography is a very harmful menace to millions of families,creating more sexual addicts and perverts than most drugs even. And it’s rarely talked about anymore in a lot of conservative circles.

If I’m not mistaken,aren’t the obscenity laws used to prosecute smut in the Nixon-era still on the books??? The inevitable judicial activism aside.

[DJ MacWoW]

You would have to convince people that society has coarsened. It has but a lot of people let the "F" word fly. Often. And in public. The 60's did us no favors.

I don't know about smut laws. We are bombarded by garbage daily on TV. (Well I'm not. Don't have TV anymore) It would be a fight.

[friendly_doc]

The obscenity laws are still on the books. The obscenity laws haven’t changed since the early 70s. What has changed is that juries no longer convict.

I sat on a jury a few years ago, during an obscenity trial. The material was truly gross and disgusting, but most people’s attitude was - no children are involved, so those who don’t want to watch it don’t have to watch it. A non-guilty verdict was reached in less than half an hour.

“Libertarianism” writ large...