You can always find fringe rightists gearing up to censor porn -- after all, it's America! -- but they don't have power to put the porn industry out of business. Rest assured that they won't be able to take your beloved smut out of your sweaty palms.
It's another story entirely when it comes to children and pornography. The media, as well as government, have literally made a federal case out of it. Just yesterday, the New York Times ran a huge investigative story whose reporter helped initiate federal prosecution of associates and clients of a young boy -- Justin Berry -- who willingly made himself into a "camwhore": Kurt Eichenwald, "Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World," <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html>.
At the same time as adults' right and freedom of sexuality has expanded, age limits to sexuality have in some ways become more strict.
The idea of protecting women from obscenity went out of fashion through the sexual revolution; protecting children has become the dominant idea of sexual discipline -- through law enforcement, media spectacles, etc. -- since the late twentieth century on.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>