the dismissed United States v. Extreme Associates (.PDF ruling) in which the argument focused on obscenity in terms other than First Amendment rights. Although a lengthy summary of the case’s evolution lies at ABC News, you can find a strong non-news analysis of the ruling at attorney/scholar John Wirenius’s journal. He recaps the conflicts within [...]

I expected to blog on Friday, but a sick kid at home, needing groceries before the storm, and mulling over a difficult plot point in the novel-in-progress up-ended my day. But here I am, providing a rare Monday blog entry, trying to make up for lost time. Onward.
Originally, I was simply gonna ask, “I really [...]

First, a reading this weekend:

Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z Reading
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Grand Opening!, Brookline, MA
6:30-8:30 PM
Free
Join editor Rachel Kramer Bussel and local contributors Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia, as they read from this red hot new collection of erotic stories all about spanking! From naughty schoolgirls to dirty doctors to those [...]

No, it isn’t the obscurest conspiracy theory ever. Just me throwing out a few links before the week completely escapes me.
By now, you’ve seen the Was Lincoln Gay? story. Most notably, Salon argued for obscurity based on what they see as author C.A. Tripp’s poor interpretation of meager evidence while Andrew Sullivan argues there’s plenty [...]

One thing I want to do this year at Pursed Lips is present some occasional pieces of erotic curiosa. It might be a risque postcard or illustration, online sites where you can freely secure older works of bawdiness or naughtiness, maybe even offer a free ebook of 19th-century raciness myself.
For starters, let me present two [...]

Canadians not only get a bounty of sex-themed programming on their digital cable systems, but are pretty matter-of-fact about it. Can you imagine anyone saying the following without getting lambasted by the American right:

Canadians cherish their freedom to watch mature sexual programming. It’s now a normal part of the TV landscape. It’s an evolution of [...]