2257, SCOTUS, male sex bloggers
Posted By jss on February 23, 2009
Chances are, most people don’t know what 2257 is … chances are, also, that a large percentage of people don’t know that SCOTUS is a geeky acronym for Supreme Court of the United States. (Barack Obama is POTUS, see how that works?)
Everyone knows what a male sex blogger is, and I try to remember to add the good ones when I find them. I’m no longer going to apologize for not having found them when I first started looking, after this, but it is inexplicable to me that I wouldn’t have run across erosblog.com, by Bacchus, before. I found him on Susie Bright’s Journal, I think … it’s hard to be sure with 15 windows open.
It will take me a while to work through Bacchus. He’s been at this since 2002. Susie Bright — well, if you don’t know who she is, you should go find out.
Regarding 2257 … right. It’s a mishmash of laws, regulations and codes dating back to 1988 that require publishers and producers of sexually explicit material to collect and retain identity and age records of all whom they depict. On Friday, a U.S. appeals court ruled against a Cleveland-based swingers magazine and web site that has been challenging the record-keeping requirements:
Publishers of sex photos need to keep records of age, federal court rules
I’m partly relieved to see that the major media is not jumping all over the latest in this case for a number of reasons, though I’ll cheerfully get irate if some lawyer want to tell me I ought to be.
- This is a 14-year-old case and it isn’t over. There are various challenges to 2257 regulations in the courts and one of them almost assuredly will, someday, wind up before the SCOTUS.
- If the government started inspecting the 2257 records of all the companies that provide the infrastructure for people to upload their nude pictures and sex videos, all hell would break loose; because millions of Americans think no more about clicking “Sure, whatever,” to a screen that has 2257 legal gibberish on it than they do to any other unreadable and possibly unenforceable terms of service agreement on the web.
- The Justice Department for the next four to eight years, at least, under Eric Holder and David Ogden, is likely to be far saner about the First Amendment and privacy than was the ousted Bush regime. Ogden, in particular, has attracted opposition from conservative anti-free speech, ant-privacy organizations. I like him already, just for the enemies he has.
From News Hounds (We watch FOX so you don’t have to)
Glenn Beck Aids Christian Right In Smearing Deputy Attorney General Nominee David Ogden
If Glenn Beck hates him, I’m for him … and I think Ogden would make a fine Supreme Court nominee, too. I just wish he was even younger, since I want all liberal appointees to the court to outlive the Bush appointees, at least. Check out the video:
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2011, of a book by the same name.
Another straight male sexblogger checking in. Although I think in the last five years I’ve used the word “heterosexual” once. And I’m not exactly setting the net afire with the notoriety or quantity of my postings. Maybe I have ADD. I have a blogspot blog, a livejournal, and profiles in half a dozen more social sites, but I don’t post all that frequently in any of them.
Still, I’m here.
Nice to meet you, Regin.
Until you came along, I didn’t know that Live Journal says you’re old enough to read adult material when you’re 14. That many fewer kids have to lie about their ages.