The Lords stuff under age 18 is in violation of the law. End of story.
Back in the 80s persons distributing it after it became public knowledge did jail time.
There was a big Federal Court case involving the law as was on the books at the time. It concerned what was then known as 'The mistake of age defense" and how the statue (law) was written.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ent_Video,_Inc.
Curiously, a few years earlier and it would not have been CP.
In 1977 the previous Federal CP law was age 16. FBI and others went to Congress, explained that when they saw some materials in magazines - most coming in from Europe - that they had a hard time determining if the model was a legal 16 or 17 year old, or a well developed 14 or 15 year old. They told Congress to raise the age to 18 - not because 16 and 17 year olds shouldn't do porn, but because it would help them in enforcing the law.
Congress raised the age in early 80s, not much before Lords came on the scene.
Oddly - it was later revealed that the age deal was just an excuse. They just wanted to fight general porn, and again under the most recent President Bush with John Ashcroft as the AG, they tried again - saying it was hard to determine between a legal 18 year old and illegal 16 year old and that age should be raised again to 21. Congress didn't act on the request.