In reply to:How would you find out what the laws are?Statutes for all U.S. laws, state, federal, and local, are published and generally available in law and major public libraries...and possibly, on-line. Of course it would be ridiculous to expect anyone to sit down and read all the books, but ignorance of the law is not an acceptable excuse for breaking the law, according to the judges.In reply to:Also, doesn't the fact of the internet crossing state and national borders affect this?It just makes things more complicated, not better. The U.S. Supreme Court established this doctrine a couple of decades or so ago that "local community standards" would determine what is legal in a given locality. Therefore, could have strip joints would be legal in LA, but in Knoxville, an adult bookstore might not be allowed. Then the Internet came about and screwed up everything. But the "local standards" thing seems to have effectively gone out the window.In reply to:Sort of related to the question of sites with adult content that underagers can access, if someone states that they are 18 (like on a profile or if they have to click a statement to get in) then is anyone liable if it turns out they were just lying?What happens if someone buys beer with a fake ID? Both parties are violating the law, but the beer seller is in much bigger trouble.In reply to:I agree though that it seems that the police would be pretty busy if they went after the benign cases (if you believe that a young'un seeing a penis is benign). Hopefully they are spending their time tracking down the people who try to lure kids to danger.I think that is the case. The problem with having unenforced laws on the books, however, is that they're dusted off from time to time and used against people that the authorities don't like. The sodomy statutes are an example of this.