What violates community obscenity standards inthe nation’s reputed pornography capital? Federal prosecutors thinkthey have a case.
Ira Isaacs readily admits he produced and soldmovies depicting bestiality and sexual activity involving feces andurine. The judge warned potential jurors that the hours of fetishvideos included violence against women, and many of them said theydon’t want to serve because watching would make them sick to theirstomachs.
"It’s the most extreme material that’s ever been put ontrial. I don’t know of anything more disgusting," said Roger JonDiamond — Isaacs’ own defense attorney.
The case is the mostvisible effort of a new federal task force designed to crack down onsmut in America. Isaacs, however, says his work is an extreme butconstitutionally protected form of art.
"There’s no question thestuff is disgusting," said Diamond, who has spent much of his careerrepresenting pornographers. "The question is should we throw people injail for it?"