If you’ve read questions and answers I’ve posted here before, you’ll realize that this isn’t an interest of mine. What I’m wondering is whether there is a sort of statute of limitations on the adult film industry. Coupled with copyright limitations, would there eventually – maybe in a very long time – be no legal reason why that work couldn’t be bought, sold, and viewed? (That there may be excellent moral reasons for not doing so is not in question.) Another, sober, way to think about it: if one of Matisse’s nude models was 15 years old, would that make a provocative painting of her pornographic? It wouldn’t/doesn’t, but why not? If there is a legal double-standard, how do we account for it?

3 Responses to “Will There Be A Point When The Films That Traci Lords Did Before She Was Of Legal Age Will Be Legal To Watch?”

  1. boston85 Says:

    Good questions:
    1/ Is it ART or PORN? …in which case if the subject is a minor as per the law, the material cannot be sold/viewed for entertainment purposes? I think the value of the material must transcend sheer titilation and have “artistic” merit….but who decides that? One man’s art is another’s porn…..Interesting…
    2/ Progression of time rendering the applicable nature of the law useless….I don’t think this would motivate many distributors/models though since the aim of the biz is to make a quick buck. But it’s an interesting question…..
    Like how you think…

  2. Loss Leader Says:

    Your thinking in this area is creative but muddled.
    Copyright laws, statutes of limitations and anything else cannot change the fact that Tracy Lords’ films are child porn. The moment one of them is watched, the person commits a new act of viewing child porn. The moment one is sold, it is distributing child porn even if the porn is thirty years old.
    Your allusion to Matisse is irrelevant. Nudity is not pornographic. Even titillating nudity is not porn. Now, the definition of porn may loosen up over time and things that were thought of as scandalous may become commonplace in the future. But I assure you that film of an underage girl’s hoo-ha being penetrated by a big shlong will always be porn.

  3. firestud Says:

    Child porn will always be child porn.

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