This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to zoning ordinances established by Sandy Springs, Georgia, in a case which got started back in 2006. Declining to hear the case means another application of the secondary effects doctrine will stand.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – For as much concern as the prospect of an obscenity law-enforcement “crackdown” has caused within the adult entertainment industry over the decades, obscenity prosecutions are something you rarely hear about these days. Sure, there were some minor rumblings of...

PHILADELPHIA – In the aftermath of major legal decisions, when describing an outcome as a big win for one or more party to the case, there’s often a “but…” which can frustrate and confound our understanding of the ruling’s significance. After all, if an appellate court eventually...

NEW YORK – It’s a good thing I don’t like popcorn, because if I were the kind of guy who likes to have a container of the stuff handy when watching drama play out, I’d need a bucket the size of swimming pool just to cover me through the end of the month in tracking the ongoing...

BENEATH THE FALLING SKY, NY – To me, the best part of any new or emerging entertainment-related technology isn’t the wondrous things we can do with it. It’s the guaranteed freak-out over the perils of the same technology we get to hear from people who are reflexively afraid of...

LOS ANGELES – I’ll be the first to admit that I’m easily confused at times – a function, perhaps, of my many years of dedicated pursuit of chemically-induced happiness. Still, there are times when my befuddlement stems not from my own eroding mental capacity, but from the fact...

SAN BRUNO, Calif. – If you’ve ever worked for an adult affiliate program, chances are you’re acutely aware of the problems individual affiliates can cause, often without meaning to do so. Whether it’s spamming the known universe with hardcore images which link to your sites, or...

PHOENIX – Often lost in the debate surrounding the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (“FOSTA”) and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (“SESTA”) is a question which seems like it should have been central to the conversation: Is a change in law really needed for prosecutors to target...

LONDON — As talk of “age verification” heats up, now might be a good time to remember that “disruptive” technologies can sometimes benefit only the disruptor. The idea of disrupting the status quo through technical innovation can sound very attractive when explained by any...

WASHINGTON – Even if the Kansas City Royals don’t think so, porn is American as mom MILFs, baseball, apple pie and ineffective federal regulations. Just ask some of the federal employees who are subject to a prohibition on porn in the workplace – a prohibition to which some of...