Okay, so first things first: as Rufus pointed out, there were no wall-sized, full-color come shots projected onto the wall of Courtroom 1701 today. This was, as you can imagine, a major bummer, both for Rufus and for me, an ex-phone-sex operator who got out of bed at 5 a.m. and dragged herself to the train station in total darkness under the impression that the rewards would involve early-morning courthouse snatch.

The silver lining was that the only people who wanted to see JuicyBoobs (motto: “You must want to see movies depicting women with very big breasts naked and having fun”) more than us were the Justice Department lawyers, who filed the pornographic exhibits as evidence with the intention, in the words of DOJ lawyer Eric Beane, of showing the court a few examples of the “shocking amount of pornography” that “slips” (!) “through to children.”

Judge Lowell Reed, who is in his mid-seventies and will, in a matter of weeks, celebrate the eighth anniversary of the first time he struck down COPA, was not in the mood, however. “I don’t need to see them,” he said. “They can be described.”

That’s right, kids: Everyone’s favorite Cobrasnaker ‚Äî well, next to the one that’s, uh, “dating” Vincent Gallo, of course ‚Äî is covering the Child Online Protection Trial for Nerve.com, currently being held here in Philly at Federal Court. Sounds kind of dry, but as with anything to do with anything about porn, it’s actually a great read. And her interview with a 13-year-old about Gen Y porn habits is absolutely freakish.
Nerve: Live At The COPA Trials [NotWorkSafeButAtLeastIt'sArtyPornAndWhatever]
Previously: Moe Tkacik’s Lost Weekend

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 12:15 pm.