American Porn 2014

As the industry braces for new prosecutions, here's a look at an obscenity prosecution in Los Angeles 2014. Pornography in the United States has existed since the country's origins. First introduced by immigrants and then later produced domestically, pornography has been ever present, but not readily acknowledged until its mainstreaming in the 21st century. Advanced by technological development, its gone from a hard to find "back alley" item to being readily available and accessible by anyone with a computer connected to the internet.

It has been subject to attempts to have it eliminated in a number of strategies, including outright bans, prohibiting its sale, censorship or rating schemes, and by claiming it is prostitution, among other means. These are reactions from the anti pornography movement in the United States. There have been court decisions dealing with aspects of pornography, including relating to the definition of pornography and obscenity, covering personal possession of pornography, and its relation to prostitution, and in relation to the right of expression.

Advocates for pornography are staunch defenders of the 1st Amendment, free speech, and the arts; while its critics and detractors have blamed it for a succession of societal ailments as well as a general religious downfall.