Right after posting my reply I noticed the other thread about obscenity charges and I thought
I'd also mention an extension of the idea discussed previously about how Celebrity Skin
uses text to provide legal cover for what would otherwise be copyright infringement.

The folks in the other thread now have a Utah grand jury deciding if their stuff is obscene.
I feel for them, because in Utah a lot of people consider anything with an R rating to
be obscene.

Anyway, besides Celebrity Skin you'll notice the big pioneering magazines like Playboy
and Penthouse also have a ton of text. They probably have 10 pages of articles, political
commentary, etc. for every oen page of pictures. There's a damn good reason for that,
and one any adult webmaster should consider if they would like some protection from
a Utah jury sending them to prison. The legal definition of obscenity in the US requires
that "the work taken as a whole", the whole web site, "lacks any serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value". So if you make one good political point somewhere
on your web site you've given yourself a significant protection from obscenity charges.
When I used to run sites I did that by including as part of each site a discussion of what
obscenity is versus pornography and how each relates to the first amendment. In this
discussion I was sure to quote the Supreme Court often. Because my site included the
rulings of the supreme court, any court convicting me would have to by implication
rule that the words of the Court "lack any serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific
value". It's awefully tough for any lawyer to argue or any judge to rule that the rulings
of the Supreme Court itself lack any serious value. Consider adding SOMETHING to
your site somewhere that has some literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, such
as political cartoons or fantasy art that really is art, despite the naked metal chick
in the scene.