Bareback Sex - Is there really any difference here?

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Originally Posted by hdkbill

Most of us on the board and all of the other board scream that our 1st Amendment rights are being violated whenever the politicians or the DoJ try to restrict our right to produce adult entertainment, or create an adult website. Yet many of the same people who scream the loudest about infringement of their 1st Amendment rights, are the first to scream that the production of bareback films are immoral or in some way unethical. You can't have your cake and eat it too. .

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That is for me the crux of the issue. As much as I'd like to be able to say "Let's ban all barebacking", I can't do it because then I'm trampling on the Constitution just as much as the right-wingers who want to ban *all* adult content.

There really is no solid black-and-white right or wrong on this issue, at least not for me. I find myself in complete agreement with Trevor, and having been an adult at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, I saw a lot of people die as well. And I also find myself in complete agreement with Bill that you can't argue that someone doesn't have the right to produce bareback content, in the same way that the Nazis have the right to march and demonstrate, the sites that produce extreme, violent, appalling content should also be protected by the First Amendment.

It's the cost of living in a country with free speech.

As soon as we start abridging our ability to express ourselves (well... not like Bush hasn't done so already), it is a very slippery slope.