Judging Pervasive Pornography

posted on 3:42 PM | permalink

Just how pervasive is pornography?

If a respected Reagan appointee on one of the highest courts in our land sees no issues in posting prurient and perhaps even explicit sexual photos on his personal website what does it say about the rest of society? How pervasive is our addiction to pornography?

Now consider this random coincidence: Judge Alex Kozinski will be presiding over one of the first major obscenity trials in Southern California.

Let's set the right tone here. Judge Kozinski is an extremely well-respected jurist of the 9th Circuit Court and prolific legal mind. We believe that he can probably separate his own weird interests from the public interests at hand.

That being said, no one can deny that there is a real irony and even a conflict of interests when it comes to defining obscenity under these circumstances.

Listen, the research out there already shows us how pervasive and accepted pornography is. But its one thing to indulge in the habit; its quite another to upload and share these things with your friends on your personal website.

We will be watching.

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