John Stagliano is in some very deep shit.

St. John the Porno Martyr.



Most of us don't even know this is happening, but it is and it matters to ALL of you who like your porno on the internets, the way nature intended. Evil Angel porn producer John Stagliano just had a ruling thrown at him that makes me sick. Every motion he filed has just been flat out dismissed.

Here's the "article"? from AVN. (I don't know if it's an article or not because it's really just a technical retelling of the ruling that was handed down yesterday.) If the average person didn't know what was happening, the average person STILL doesn't know.

Allow me to sum up: On April 8, 2008 Mr. Stagliano was charged by a federal grand jury with seven different obscenity charges related to operating an obscenity distribution business.

The indictment named Jay Sin's Milk Nymphos, Joey Silvera's Storm Squirters as well as Belladonnas movie trailer for Fetish Fanatic 5. THE TRAILER for a movie. Not even the whole movie but the TRAILER.

The charges are against Stagliano, his corporation and Evil Angel. If he is found guilty, he could spend 32 years in prison and up to 7 MILLION dollars in fines.

So there's this thing called the Miller test that courts use to define what is 'obscene.' To me it sounds like, how many Miller Lites does it take before I barf while watching Belladonna shitting out a lime but no... There are three criteria used in the Miller Test:

1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interests.

2. The work depicts, or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state (or federal) law

3. The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious, artistic, political or scientific value.

Stagliano's lawyers said, "Hey, waitta minute! You got us for a movie trailer, you outta see the whole thing!" A movie trailer is NOT the whole work. To me, drawing the courts attention to that movie, when they're only in shit for the trailer, seems like it could be a bad move. But I see where they're going: It is NOT a work being taken on the whole. A trailer is not a whole of anything. So therefore, at least that charge should be dismissed.

Well Federal Judge Richard Leon sees it differently and took four weeks longer to issue his ruling than he originally said. Four weeks. Four weeks longer to go over that material, again and again and again. Reviewing. Scrutinizing. Rewinding. Watching it on HD to see every nuance and curve-- someone check his chambers for lotion and kleenex.