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Mutt · 02-12-2003, 04:03 AM

this was how law enforcement tried to stomp out the burgeoning adult movie industry in California - pandering charges, pandering is 'procuring someone for the purpose of prostitution'. Thankfully the courts found that there is a difference between hiring somebody to perform sex acts for sexual gratification and hiring people to perform sex acts for purposes of creating a film/video.

I do wonder in this day of the Internet and gonzo porn whether some guy who roams the street with a video camera looking to hire a girl to take back to a motel room to have videotaped POV sex could have pandering charges brought against him successfully. I think the pandering charges could stick against some amateur porn makers.

It's not by accident that the 90% of the world's commercial porn video production takes place in the San Fernando Valley, Chatsworth in particular - not sure if Chatsworth is an incorporated city within Los Angeles or what and whether it passed a law making the production of porn legal ................but they flocked to Chatsworth because they knew they would be free from cops busting them on pandering charges.

I think pandering charges are a part of porn's past, you don't hear or see it any more, the Court was pretty clear that hiring somebody to make a movie was not prostitution so now they are back to using obscenity laws - and by the two most recent cases involving high profile porn producers, Seymore Butts and Max Hardcore, even those obscenity charges aren't sticking these days. Butts got his charge reduced to some piddly little thing and Max Hardcore got a hung jury, that case will be retried because the DA really wants a conviction against Max badly.

02-12-2003, 04:03 AM
Mutt Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 34,431	this was how law enforcement tried to stomp out the burgeoning adult movie industry in California - pandering charges, pandering is 'procuring someone for the purpose of prostitution'. Thankfully the courts found that there is a difference between hiring somebody to perform sex acts for sexual gratification and hiring people to perform sex acts for purposes of creating a film/video. I do wonder in this day of the Internet and gonzo porn whether some guy who roams the street with a video camera looking to hire a girl to take back to a motel room to have videotaped POV sex could have pandering charges brought against him successfully. I think the pandering charges could stick against some amateur porn makers. It's not by accident that the 90% of the world's commercial porn video production takes place in the San Fernando Valley, Chatsworth in particular - not sure if Chatsworth is an incorporated city within Los Angeles or what and whether it passed a law making the production of porn legal ................but they flocked to Chatsworth because they knew they would be free from cops busting them on pandering charges. I think pandering charges are a part of porn's past, you don't hear or see it any more, the Court was pretty clear that hiring somebody to make a movie was not prostitution so now they are back to using obscenity laws - and by the two most recent cases involving high profile porn producers, Seymore Butts and Max Hardcore, even those obscenity charges aren't sticking these days. Butts got his charge reduced to some piddly little thing and Max Hardcore got a hung jury, that case will be retried because the DA really wants a conviction against Max badly. __________________ I moved my sites to Vacares Hosting. I've saved money, my hair is thicker, lost some weight too! Thanks Sly!