City University of New York Law Review Volume 10 Issue 1 Winter 2006 Deviant Dreams: Extreme Associates and the Case for Porn Sienna Baskin CUNY School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/clr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Sienna Baskin, Deviant Dreams: Extreme Associates and the Case for Porn, 10 N.Y. City L. Rev. 155 (2006). Available at: 10.31641/clr100108 The CUNY Law Review is published by the Office of Library Services at the City University of New York. For more information please contact
[email protected]. Deviant Dreams: Extreme Associates and the Case for Porn Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Professor Ruthann Robson, Professor Andrea McArdle, Lena Ramon, and Davim Horowitz. This article is available in City University of New York Law Review: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/clr/vol10/iss1/9 DEVIANT DREAMS: EXTREME ASSOCIATES AND THE CASE FOR PORN, Sienna Baskin* There's a difference between watching entertainment and feeling hey, that's not my, you know, cup of tea. I could do without seeing that for the next [thirty] years of my life, and saying, "You know what? The person who made that should go to prison. "2 [A] person's inclinations and fantasies are his own and beyond the reach of government.3 INTRODUCTION: THE FIRST BATrLE IN THE WAR ON PORN "I guess this means we've won the war on terror," responded one frustrated FBI agent when he learned of the government's new priority for investigations and prosecutions: obscene pornogra- phy.4 Attorney General Gonzales has announced his intention to resurrect the federal obscenity statutes, which have lain virtually unused for a decade, to prosecute purveyors of pornography whose products violate community standards.5 His public statements on the subject make clear that the campaign will target obscenity 1 The term pornography and its abbreviation will be used interchangeably in this essay.