• Carighan Maconar
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    1141 year ago

    If it’s as presented in the quote then yeah, this feels like that australian porn law they tried where “if you look like you could be underage, it counts as child sex material” and one specific example from the text was “too small or flat breasts”. Which was just patently absurd.

    • chaogomu
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      851 year ago

      I seem to remember a guy being convicted for possession of child porn, and the very much adult porn star actually came to his trial to testify in his defense… I’ll see if I can find a link about it, but that will be some risky searching.

      • Givesomefucks
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        1011 year ago

        Lupe something.

        And he wasnt convicted, but was going to. The state had a “medical expert” show up and testify that there was no way an adult woman could look like that. Just 100% sure of himself and smug as fuck about it.

        Then the defense called the pornstar to the stand and she was in her late 20s or something and working in the industry for over a decade.

        It was something that never should have made it to trial, and gets used a lot as an example for how shit expert testimony can be. The prosecution doesn’t try to find the person who knows the most, they find whoever can do the best job of convincing a jury that the prosecution is right. So the people who do it (some are professional “expert witnesses”) are just the most overconfident people. Even if they’re not sure, they play it up that there can’t be any doubt.

        • eggmasterflex
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          291 year ago

          Lupe Fuentes. What’s worse is that she was already registered in multiple US studios since she made films here, too, so the prosecution could have easily verified her documents, which the defense attorney asked her to do. Instead, she had the CBP agent who made the arrest and an “expert” doctor testify that Lupe couldn’t have been more than 13.

          Good article on it here: https://reason.com/2010/05/03/porn-star-saves-man-from-incom/

    • @CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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      1 year ago

      There’s some further correspondence in the linked post, and yeah that’s basically what it boiled down to. What a strange world. I can’t believe that’s a real law.

        • FaceDeer
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          221 year ago

          They’re pandering to voters with laws like that. The politicians probably don’t care.

        • @gamer@lemm.ee
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          161 year ago

          Makes the story about ChatGPT passing the bar exam a lot less impressive.

      • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        God I feel so bad for all the women who were in the “illegally small boobs” category. Therapist and psychiatrist visits must have skyrocketed.