Your fact-checks will appear here
The United States' free-speech guarantee has been interpreted to permit consensual adult pornography
Text-only sexual writing that depicts minors is treated far more permissively under U.S. law and constitutional doctrine than visual depictions: federal statutes and precedent focus criminal liability...
Governments have moved away from treating as traditional offenses by carving out age‑sensitive defenses, lower penalties, diversion programs, and narrow exceptions that distinguish consensual peer-to-...
— shorthand for pornography — is broadly defined as material (image, video, text, audio) intended primarily to produce sexual arousal, a category whose boundaries and social meaning have shifted acros...
A conviction under requires the government to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that an adult produced a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a person who was a minor, that the defe...
depicting minors sits in a fraught legal and policy gray zone: principally target visual depictions of real minors and traditionally do not criminalize purely textual fiction, but , state statutes, an...