Porn

Protecting Porn

Many countries, like the U.S., have a well-established adult entertainment industry. Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, have no legitimate adult industry at all. Such dramatic differences between developed nations are usually the result of the respective countries’ laws regulating the creation, distribution and possession of erotic materials. In the U.S., erotic materials are fully protected under our federal constitution except for child pornography and works that have been judicially determined to be obscene. In contrast, pornography enjoys no legal protection whatsoever in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, whose legal systems are based on the body of Islamic religious law known as Sharia. In these countries, the creation, distribution and possession of pornographic content are strictly prohibited and violators can be subjected to terrible punishments, including amputation or even death.