The "2 Girls 1 Cup" defense

Susannah Breslin has a an interesting post up today about an interview on Adult Video News, the trade magazine of the adult video industry, with Ira Isaacs, the adult video creator and distributor named in a federal obscenity indictment last July:

And perhaps most interestingly, Isaacs and his lawyer, he says, intend to pursue an unprecedented legal defense. The 2 Girls 1 Cup defense, that is.

Isaacs explains:

"'What it is, is, there's videos all over the internet of millions of people watching this [Two Girls, One Cup] video, and it's a shock video, and people record their reactions…' '[T]he idea is, millions of people are watching this video about girls shitting in each other's mouths, vomiting in each other's mouths, and they are not, I think, obviously looking for prurient interest to masturbate. People are trying to shock themselves, because in today's world, everything is shock on TV… People need a lot to be shocked these days… What I've done is, I think, really shocked people, and I think that's why the federal government is on this case.'"

While it remains to be seen how the 2 Girls 1 Cup defense will play out in court, Isaacs is right about one thing. In the 21st century, adult videos may be more hardcore than ever before, but so is the American public's taste for it.

Link to post. Image: Sergey Kovalenko.

Previously on BB:
* Feds hand eight-count obscenity charge to porn producer
(about a related but different case, a more recent obscenity case involving porn producer John Stagliano).