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The Thin Line Between Pornography and Prostitution

By Corey Rayburnyung

While filming pornography might seem different than prostitution, the difference between the two can be illusory when money changes hands. Eugene Volokh explains in analyzing a recent New Hampshire case:People sometimes ask -- if it's a crime to pay someone to have sex with your friend, or even to pay two people to have sex so you can watch, why aren't pornographers equally guilty? Well, occasionally this gets litigated, and there's a new opinion out on this from the New Hampshire Supreme Court, State v. Theriault.New Hampshire Revised Statutes 645:2 provides, in relevant part,I. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the person:(f) Pays, agrees to pay, or offers to pay another person to engage in ... sexual penetration as defined in RSA 632-A:1, V, with the payor or with another person...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).