Obscenity Convictions are Poopy!

by Darklady

for Yes Portal ( http://www.yesportal.com )

Golden and brown showers lead to jail terms for online couple.

The nation is on orange alert due to fear of holiday terrorist attacks – but West Virginia knows where the real threat is: poop and pee videos.

Last Friday the right honorable U.S. District Judge David Faber struck what he must think was an important blow for freedom and decency when he sentenced Michael J. Corbett and his ex-wife Sharon Bates to prison – for running a website that sold defecation and urination videos and DVDs.

Am I the only person screwing up her face in disgust and saying, "What the fuck?"

I’m pretty private about my bathroom activities, although I realize that not everyone is. I’ve watched a few well-produced and fairly "soft" golden shower releases and found them strangely sensual in their own way. I’ve found it enjoyable to have a lover to put his hands under a stream of my urine while he masturbated me as I used the facilities, but his obvious delight was the greatest pleasure I took away from the experience. It’s not a fetish I feel compelled to explore but also not one I feel compelled to condemn. I admit that playing with poop has never appealed to me, not even as an infant or toddler. But to declare either of these activities "obscene" seems more than a stretch for me. Gross? Sure. But "obscene" in a legal sense? Frankly, I reserve that term for things like engaging in undeclared wars, covering up for pedophile priests, firing well trained military Arabic translators because they’re gay, or enforcing the patently unconstitutional USA PATRIOT Act or Communication Decent Act.

Alas, I am not a federal judge. On the other hand, David Faber is – and he has decided that two adults selling videos and DVDs depicting mutually consenting adults engaging in scat and golden shower activities to mutually consenting adults that want to buy them is obscene. Like it or not – and I’m firmly in the "not" category – this first ever federal Internet obscenity case may be the shape of things to come. Apparently, although there are evil forces at work on the international scene, the true domestic horrors involve videotaping body fluids usually reserved for diapers and toilet bowls. The U.S. government may not be able to tell a terrorist apart from a teapot at Camp X-Ray, but Judge Faber knows obscenity when he sees it – and he knows that it deserves punishment. Pleading guilty to a single count of mailing obscene material earned Corbett and Bates, two clearly dangerous characters, more than a year in prison each, tens of thousands of dollars in fines, and years of probation. Corbett, presumably because he’s the boy and should have known better, will be spending 18 months of embarrassment behind bars while explaining to rapists and murderers how he sold videos of girls pissing and shitting. His ex-wife will serve a more modest 13 months. The government will scoop $30,000 out of Corbett’s life’s savings and another $10,000 from Bates. Each will be under supervision for three years once they get out of jail. What are they going to be watched for? To make sure nobody videotapes them doing doody duty? Will it be illegal for someone to be in the same bathroom with them? I mean, come on – what exactly is the appropriate punishment for consensually letting someone see another person draining their lizard or dropping a load?

Theoretically this is a Capitalist based economy – yet every time someone uses creativity in responding a pleasure-based consumer need, the government steps in and acts like some kind of moral authority. The feds seem to delight in the oddest things these days: throwing dying people in jail for smoking state sanctioned medicinal marijuana, busting prostitutes and their clients, threatening porn producers – and tossing the owners of www.GirlsPooping.com in prison. Somehow it’s hard to understand the justification behind spending precious tax dollars to arrest, convict, and incarcerate two people because they were responsible for content Outdoor Pooping Paradise (featuring 10 women doing what bears do in the woods) and the enema spectacle, content Simone’s Daddy’s Little Girl. Is it jealousy? The couple apparently pocketed $70,000 in three months by shipping out 30 orders a day, indicating that there may be interest in watching pretty girls poop, just like there is in smoking federally subsidized cigarettes or drinking federally controlled booze. Fortunately for the money strapped United States of America, Corbett and Bates had $15,010 resting in their bank accounts. That’s $15,010 now resting in the U.S. government’s coffers, not counting the $60,000 paid in exchange for the honor of keeping their home. The couple also gave up the domain name, all "obscene" material and equipment involved in the production and manufacture of the videos. No word on whether that includes their bladders or intestines.

But before anyone concludes that Judge Faber is a horrible man without a heart or a brain, let us not forget the compassion that he showed the www.GirlsPooping.com webmasters, Joseph Tanner and Randall Rogers. These evildoers used their company Tdigital Services, Inc. to provide services for the super naughty and nationally dangerous pooping and peeing site and shared in the profits. For their wicked ways, Tanner forfeited $80,000, all of his "obscene" materials and equipment, will do 13 months in prison and pay $20,000 of blood money, while Rogers only has to contend with three years’ probation – because his involvement was considered minor and he’s confined to a wheelchair. See? The government is compassionate! It doesn’t send crippled porn webmasters to jail – just everyone else. And when you consider that each of these poopy heads could have served five years and had $250,000 extracted from their bank accounts, ya just can’t help but thank god for a justice system that has so much love in its hard.

As for me, I’m going to go to the bathroom, look at a porno magazine, and just be pissed off – cuz being pissed on is apparently illegal.