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Pornography and prostitution

Anglosphere

There's something I can't explain. In many places, prostitution is illegal but pornography is not. It's not allowed to pay for (or receive payment for) sexual acitivities, unless you distribute photography or recordings.

Can someone explain to me how this makes any sense at all?

Tammy NYP video

Birds

Oh my. Apparently there's a new hot item on the Internet which we will all have forgotten about in a couple of weeks: a 17-year-old bint called Tammy, studying at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, features in an amateur sex video with her 21-year-old boyfriend. Bored yet? Well, apparently the rest of the world is not: there's a genuine Tammy hype featuring fake eBay items, funny t-shirts, horny geeks looking for download links.. the whole kit and kaboodle. Why?

Well, technically seventeen is not eighteen. Technically the video is child porn.

And technically I care more about the fact that the distribution is going on against her will than the fact that she's a minor on film. Come on Internet, blogosphere.. if you really insist on getting all hot and bothered about people under eighteen having sex on film, hunt done some of the early works of Traci Lords. She purposefully entered the porn industry at age fifteen. Or buy a webcam and ask the nearest Breezer teen to put up a nice show for you, if she's willing to. There are so many teenagers who consensually explore sexuality to extreme limits that it's pathetic to hype the Tammy video.

Theocratic prudes and nice guys

Anglosphere

George Bush is an evil theocratic prude stepping on our freedoms in the name of family values and religion. Or at least, that's how some people would describe the man. In my experience there is a tendency amongst those people to then add how Bill Clinton was such a decent, honourable President. What a nice guy!

Fair enough, under the Bush administration Congress did regulate porn with USC 2257's record-keeping requirements to make sure minors would not enter the industry. Never mind that ten years ago under the Clinton administration, Congress actually passed the Communications Decency Act in an attempt to outright ban not just obscene but also "indecent" speech on the Internet. Excuse my language, but shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat that!

Also fair enough, the Bush administration does frequently express conservative family values which often derive from Christianity. Never mind that the cartoon wars resulted in Bill Clinton attacking blasphemy as we speak (while we still can). Andrew Stuttaford points out on The Corner:

Clinton embarrasses himself in Pakistan: "I strongly disagreed with both the creation and the publication of cartoons that were considered blasphemous to devout Muslims around the world because they depicted the Prophet."

Leaving aside the fact that the prohibition on depiction of Mohammed is by no means as clear-cut as Clinton pretends to think, we have to deal with the fact that Clinton believes that images that "offend" the beliefs of one religious faith should not even be created, let alone published.

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That's wrong, wrong, wrong. No collection of beliefs, even if they do involve a deity, should be given special privileges and protections. And, Bill, if my free speech is your blasphemy, that's just tough.

Unfortunately these words will probably not prevent that the urban legend where Bill Clinton is a nice guy will live on for ever. Nor that special privileges for religions already exist.

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