Rob Black and Lizzy Borden are going to jail.

I only know their work by reputation, but apparently they did some rather disgusting things. But that’s not why they’re going to jail. There has been so far as I am aware of, no allegation that any of the things they did were against the law.

No, Rob Black and Lizzy Borden are going to jail, not because of anything they did or paid other people to do,  but because they videotaped various mayhems and then sold these recordings.

Let’s all just think on that a minute.

There is no allegation that what was happening in front of the camera was illegal. The crime is that what was going on was videotaped and then sold to an adult in a juristiction wherein the contents of the recording, although not actually criminal actions in and of themselves, the recording and sales of these actions so offend public decency that is constitutes a crime.

The mind reels.

And if you think for a minute that this sort of thing doesn’t make my wife Peggy and I reconsider what we do, you’re wrong. Stuff like this scares the shit out of us.

And that’s the point, isn’t it?

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