“[Eric] Holder’s actions keep the porn industry thriving,” Patrick A. Trueman, president of Morality in Media, said in a press release. “He not only refuses to enforce obscenity laws currently on the books that prohibit the distribution of hardcore pornography, but he even disbanded the office charged with enforcement.” Trueman, who headed the DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section until 1993, is referring to Holder’s 2011 decision to shut down the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, which was formed in 2005. Obscenity prosecutions dropped during the Clinton administration after Trueman left the department. The Obama administration hasn’t brought a new obscenity case since taking office in 2009, and during the Bush administration, Trueman acknowledges, obscenity prosecutions were at relatively low levels. “As with any federal matter, the Department focuses its limited investigative and prosecutorial resources on the most egregious cases, particularly those that facilitate child exploitation or involve the sexual abuse of children,” DOJ spokeswoman Nanda Chitre wrote. “This prioritization is critical given the dramatic increase in the sexual exploitation of children and the increasing severity of the images in child pornography cases, with more images depicting prepubescent children and infants and more images depicting violence and sadism.”
Sadly, what Chitre, and others, do not realize is that the so-called more “main-stream” forms of porn drive the underground pornography industry and vice versa. It works like this: porn addiction, as with other addictions, such as a reliance on drugs, is progressive. Meaning, that the dosage needs to become more frequent and of greater intensity as the addiction continues. Those that start out with looking at soft-core porn (i.e. Playboy, music videos, reality shows,) must quickly move onto hardcore in order to achieve the same level of excitement. Then, the hardcore materiel must become more intense, graphic, and or violent and sadistic. This puts an incredible burden upon the porn industry, for, they must continually invent and or appropriate new distractions. Most just delve into the seedy world of BDSM, gay porn, and child-porn for images to borrow; hence – the sick phenomena of dressing-up legal age actresses as little girls. This, in-turn, feeds the ever-growing world of main-stream pornography. Tragically, it perverts the viewer; and the society at large. Lastly, when nothing else works, like a heroine addict who main-lines that last powerful dose, many porn-addicts desperately turn to illegal pornography.