Interesting thread, and as an outsider so to speak, I think that american politics is so bent towards sex its almost laughable if it wasn't so dangerous. To believe that the industry is safe because these laws won't come into being, is at best, wishful thinking.

Look around, did you imagine 5 years ago even that the President could approve wire taps without a judge's consent? Did you think 10 years ago that the NSA would be recording everyone's phone calls? That the FAA would demand your banking information, medical history and records and religion? Did you ever think 10 years ago that you would need a passport to get home from Mexico and Canada? In 2007 and 2008 you will.

As for the, well its a republican thing, consider that it is a Democrat who proposed the segregation of the internet and tied it to new 2257 regulations, not to mention that both parties are together on the definition of what marraige is. Did you really think 5 years ago that the Chairmen of the Democratic Party would insist that marraige is between a man & a woman only?

So thinking that these laws won't happen, is as I say, wishful thinking. Its happening and while I'd agree, the industry needs to do it on its own, look around at some of the members of this industry? Take Sean, and his pushing it to the limits and arguements about what is and what isn't a twink. Consider these are the ones who daily put all of us at risk because they are unwilling to comprehend what is truly going on around them.

But hell, we got our own idiots in Ottawa to contend with, so good luck, we all are gonna need it I think. :coffee: