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15 Scholar 213 (2012-2013)
When Law Moves Quicker than Culture: Key Jurisprudential Regulations Shaping the US Adult Content Production Industry

handle is hein.journals/schom15 and id is 233 raw text is: WHEN LAW MOVES QUICKER THAN CULTURE: KEY
JURISPRUDENTIAL REGULATIONS SHAPING THE US
ADULT CONTENT PRODUCTION INDUSTRY
CHAUNTELLE ANNE TIBBALS, PH.D.*
Abstract      .............................................. 214
I. Introduction.......                               ....  214
II. Developments During the Reel Era (1957-1974) ......... 215
A. Before the Reel Era Began ...................... 215
B. Jurisprudential Regulations of Obscenity During the
Reel Era (1957-1974)     ........................... 218
C. The Limiting Role of Technology .................   222
III. Developments During The Video Era (1975-1994) ........ 223
A. Developing Technology    ......................... 224
B. Jurisprudential Regulations, Geographic
Concentration, and Further Refinement of
Obscenity    ................................... 225
IV. Activism Inside and Outside the Adult Industry........... 233
A. Feminist and Conservative Anti-Pornography
Activism .....     .......................  ..... 234
1. A Most Unlikely Poster-Girl .................. 234
2. Political Conservatives and Feminists Allied
against Pornography  ........................ 237
B. Adult Industry Activism      ........................ 243
V. Developments During The Digital/Virtual Era
(1995-2005)         ...................................... 247
A. Jurisprudential Regulations of Obscenity ............ 248
B. The Adult Industry's (Informal) Production Code-
The Cambria List    ............................. 254
VI. Discussion And Conclusion .................    ......... 257
* Chauntelle Anne Tibbals, PhD is a sociologist specializing in gender and labor
issues, media and popular culture, and sexualities. She has spent almost ten years
researching the adult industry, working to complicate popular understanding of the adult
business, its enterprise, and its socio-cultural significance. Her research has been published
in numerous scholarly journals including Sexualities, Gender Work & Organization,
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Stanford Law and Policy Review. Dr. Tibbals
would like to thank Alyse Haugen and other members of The Scholar's Editorial Board for
their support of this work, Mounira M. Charrad for comments and guidance on earlier
versions of this essay, and BCFJ for endless encouragement.

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