[usrlocaletc]

I don't understand what public "good" this is trying to accomplish (who's the victim?); it seems like the victim was victimized twice: once by revenge porn and then again with an unjust, unconcerned, over-prosecuting legal system that incarcerates more people per capita than all other countries except Seychelles.

A tangential irony is adults engaging sex for money is illegal in most of America, while if it involves a camera, then it's porn and legal.

[pizza234]

> A tangential irony is adults engaging sex for money is illegal in most of America, while if it involves a camera, then it's porn and legal.

From a legal perspective, the distinction is considerably more detailed than just camera or not. This is a brief article: https://vistacriminallaw.com/pornography-vs-prostitution-in-...

I knew a longer article, but I can't find it.

Morally speaking, it all boils down to protecting the form of expression. Probably, when the laws were written, there was the idea the sex for money is abhorrent, but freedom of speech needed to be respected. In fact, the core difference of prostitution and porn is that in the former, clients definitely don't want to be filmed, so it kinda makes (I'm not implying that I agree or not).

[bsder]

> A tangential irony is adults engaging sex for money is illegal in most of America, while if it involves a camera, then it's porn and legal.

People like to say that, but it really isn't true.

A very few, very localized areas have specific legal jurisprudence surrounding the production of pornography. Everywhere else, you're probably going to get arrested. And, if the prosecutor decides to try you, you are almost certainly getting jailed. And while you will probably eventually win your appeal, you get the privilege of fighting your appeal from jail in the meantime.

So, while producing pornography may technically be legal everywhere in the US, practically it is only legal in areas that have specific jurisprudence declaring it so.