It's been a long day at work. You're belly is starting to grumble, and you don't have nearly enough energy to cook dinner. As you drive past a McDonald's, you think, "Damn, I could really go for a Big Mac right about now." (This wouldn't be my personal preference, but with billions and billions served, I suspect this craving is experienced by many.) The building looks suspiciously deserted, and as you pull up to the drive through window, you find it closed and obscured by a notice stating, "Closed by the US Supreme Court for distributing unhealthy products within the community."

What the fuck is up with that?! If I want to indulge in a sackful of saturated fats every once in a while, or even on a daily basis until I get so fat that I can't leave my bed and Maury Povich has to exploit me in an exclusive episode that ends with me getting extricated from my home via helicopter, I should be able to make that choice for myself, right? Never fear, your all beef patties and special sauce are still safe for now, but the government does seem to operate in this manner when it comes to pornography and obscenity laws. I recently attended the Free Speech Coalition's Bada-Bing Bailout Bash at the Skirball Cultural Center in LA where significant and influential individuals in the adult entertainment industry were honored with awards. Among those being honored were Peggy Oettinger, the president of the Sinclair Institute, Larry Flynt, the head of Hustler and a frequent defender of our first amendment rights, and John Stagliano, the head of Evil Angel who is currently under indictment for violating obscenity laws. John's current battle to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison has really struck a nerve with me.

Now, if the law stated that distributing a video of a woman being sodomized with a baseball bat (much like the lovely Belladonna did)
would result in a five year prison sentence, and John Stagliano broke that law, there would be little that anyone could say to defend him. However, the obscenity laws have not been written in that way. Instead, a person can be taken to court after producing and distributing a product, where a decision as to whether or not the product is considered obscene will then be made based on the court's assessment of the current community standard for obscenity. This is absurd! That means that the government can imprison somebody for violating a law that is not clearly defined.

The basic guidelines as established by Chief Justice Warren Burger are: "(a) whether 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."

In Mr. Stagliano's case they have chosen two films, Milk Nymphos and Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice, out of the massive library of films he has produced and distributed over the past twenty-one years with Evil Angel. Somehow, he has managed to cross the line with these two fetish films, that are not substantially unlike or more offensive than hundreds of other fetish films on the market. Much like Flynt, I believe that Stagliano has become a target because his company has been such a successful leader in the production of pornography. The reason these companies have been so profitable is that people seek out and spend money on the specific types of pornography that appeal to them. Stagliano wasn't handing out free copies of Milk Nymphos in local elementary schools, he was marketing them on the Evil Angel website and in adult video stores. To wrap this up, our freedoms are being unjustly threatened, and we can't let The United States vs. John Stagliano set the precedent for future limitations on our freedom to enjoy watching the beauty that is two women drenching each other with a torrential rainfall of ejaculate.

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Photos of Bobbi, John Stagliano, Larry Flynt and Peggy Oetinger are courtesy of the lovely and talented, Gia Jordan.

MILK NYMPHOS

STORM SQUIRTERS 2: TARGET PRACTICE