I would think that the availability of comparable material through major book chains -- such as Amazon and Borders -- would make an obscenity accusation for a fan work much less viable. For example, there is nothing in, say, Ponderosa's work that is *more* explicit than anything that can be found in Moore and Gebbie's Lost Girls; the latter includes some extremely graphic depictions of children and adults having sex. The very existence of Lost girls would, i think, make prosecution of fan artists for depicting underage sex *extremely* difficult.
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I would think that the availability of comparable material through major book chains -- such as Amazon and Borders -- would make an obscenity accusation for a fan work much less viable. For example, there is nothing in, say, Ponderosa's work that is *more* explicit than anything that can be found in Moore and Gebbie's Lost Girls; the latter includes some extremely graphic depictions of children and adults having sex. The very existence of Lost girls would, i think, make prosecution of fan artists for depicting underage sex *extremely* difficult.