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Belladonna's "Fetish Fanatic 5": Defend Your Right To Anal Squirting!

Stores like Adult DVD Empire may have already pulled our gal Belladonna's newly federally indicted "Fetish Fanatic 5" from their online inventory, but as of this afternoon you can still see the trailer for it on Evil Angel's site. Frankly, after watching it two or three or a dozen times we can't see what all the brouhaha is about; after all, things like enemas, squirting, and inserting dildos with one's (or someone else's) feet are hardly rare in porn these days—and as Evil Angel's Karen Stagliano told AVN today, "Maybe you don't always do (these things) in your normal bedroom, but that's kind of the point of porn." Even if the case doesn't lead to a prosecution, the indictment is bound to have a chilling effect on the adult industry, not to mention on our collective rights to free expression in general. After all, if you can't watch Belladonna and her pals stick various brightly colored liquids and foreign objects up each other's asses, the terrorists will so totally have won.

· "Fetish Fanatic 5" (2006) (DVD info + trailers @ evilangel.com)
· Belladonna Entertainment LLC (enterbelladonna.com)
· "FEDERAL GRAND JURY CHARGES TWO COMPANIES AND OWNER JOHN STAGLIANO WITH OBSCENITY VIOLATIONS" (.pdf press release @ usdoj.gov)
· "John Stagliano, Evil Angel Indicted On Federal Obscenity Charges" (AVN) + "John Stagliano, Evil Angel Charged With 7 Obscenity Violations" (Xbiz)

4:35 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Fleshbot
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$Image of josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris\'s sack-dance for you$ josereyes.theroof... at 07:48 PM on 04/09/08
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So much for our nation's motto -- 'E pluribass unum' is a lie.
no_one_can at 08:26 PM on 04/09/08
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I guess the Grand Jury has never seen any of Jay Sin's titles - Milk Nymphos, Gape Lovers, etc.
$Image of josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris\'s sack-dance for you$ josereyes.theroof... at 08:33 PM on 04/09/08
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@no_one_can: I'm holding out for the unauthorized Jane Goodall bio-pic The Great Gapes.
CloudCarrier at 12:05 AM on 04/10/08
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@no_one_can: I have Floppy Ploppers on indefinite pre-order (odor?).

But really, I have a lot of love for John & Co., and hope this whole ordeal is over before more frivolous "crackdowns" happen to less established purveyors. That, and I really want to see Rocco Destroys Hoboken before the year 2023.
Prof_Derzshowitz at 08:07 AM on 04/11/08
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@Fleshbot: Thanks for delivering a Belladonna post. I usually rely on you to get my regular fix, and it had been such a long while since I've seen this wonder that I was starting to suffer from withdrawal symptoms.

Now, if only Dashiell Bennett could put up a seriously wicked, extra-long Belladonna embedded video in his next installment of Flesh-Flicks, then we'd totally be on the right track... :-)
Naumadd at 03:00 AM on 04/18/08
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I'm fairly comfortable with the position that this isn't a question ethics. Consenting adults doing what they wish with their own bodies, filming it, selling it, sharing it with other consenting adults. There is no valid ethical argument against any of it. No, the question here is whether or not rational adults are safe from human beings without the maturity to sit in judgment above them. It's an unfortunate reality that mature adults behaving accordingly must protect themselves against immature adults in positions of power and ill-gotten authority. This is a question of survival for those with the maturity and will to explore forms of pleasure and expression outside the tentative mainstream. I'm reasonably certain such mature adults WILL survive. My question always is how to increase the maturity of those who continually threaten them with minimal to no harm to either.