Article note: Our legal system is hilariously broken. Where our failure at police accountability and our regulatory-captured IP law collide, we get this.
…it is also true that in modern times the term “pornography” connotes mediocrity, commercialism, and certain strict rules of narration. Obscenity must be mated with banality because every kind of aesthetic enjoyment has to be replaced by simple sexual stimulation which demands the traditional word for direct action on the patient.