Originally Posted by bhartman36

Well, two points here:

1) Pornography isn't an exception. It's legal to publish and distribute pornography (or Playboy and Hustler, et al, wouldn't be in business). Obscenity is illegal. That would include (IIRC), things like child pornography, snuff (although the very existence of snuff films is an urban legend, as far as I can tell), people doing scatological things (urinating and defecating on each other, for example), etc. Visual or written depictions of sex are seldom declared obscene these days on their own (since, if I remember right, the 1960's).