r/USdefaultism • u/savvy_Idgit • 12d ago

Reddit "American App"

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Sigh, maybe I shouldn't have taken the ragebait and just lived my life.

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u/dwylth 12d ago

Famously the US government (well, the supreme court, but let's not pick nits) defined (hardcore) pornography as "I know it when I see it" so lol

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u/Scrounger888 Canada 12d ago

But they have to watch it a few times "just to be sure."

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u/SoloMarko England 11d ago

I think the first rule to help define that it is porn would be, 'I can see it going in!'.

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u/nomadic_weeb 10d ago

So recording a handjob is fine then?

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u/SoloMarko England 10d ago

I never got past thinking about the first rule. I was trying to be funny, but I never realised I was actually on the choosing panel.

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u/SrirachaGamer87 12d ago

Well, to be honest, this is kinda true. It's easy to say that porn is filmed sex acts, but not every filmed sex act is porn. Hell, porn doesn't even have to contain anything most people would consider sexy. I once stumbled upon a video of a woman sitting on cakes. This doesn't obviously look like porn, but you could just feel the "porny" vibes radiating off it. Even pictures of feet can be porn, so I kinda like that definition.

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u/MaterialCattle Finland 12d ago

It is absolutely true, but horrible basis on a legal system.

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u/dwylth 12d ago

Yes that's the point I was making. When the poster confidently goes "the US government" is to define it, I don't think he had thought about the complexity of it