@feld @lain @cjd All it takes is for the courts to actually enforce obscenity even slightly and 99% of porn currently sold goes away. The legality of it hinges on "whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." as your article says, and by that standard pretty much none of it should exist. There is the possibility for porn with artistic/literary merit but I can't think of a single filmed example made in decades.