Is That True, Man?

I've recently questioned how the Justice Department spends its money, so let me praise them for backing off on obscenity prosecutions.  In this area, when there's a voluntary exchange between adults, it's not the government's business.  The idea of locking people up for such activity is repulsive.

Of course, no good deed goes unpunished, so 42 Senators (including seven Democrats) recently sent a letter to Eric Holder insisting we get that prosecution rate back up.  I guess they need to throw someone in jail, since sexual assaults rates have been going down over the past twenty years (even though it's likely with greater awareness reporting rates have risen), even as pornography is more readily available.

The most interesting argument for tossing more pornographers in jail comes from former obscenity prosecutor Patrick Trueman.  No, he's not worried about obscenity prosecutor unemployment.  In fact, he's got a new job as head of the group Morality In Media.  Here's his claim:

"Significant numbers [of] adult porn consumers move eventually to child porn because nothing else excites them."

As loath as I am to invoke common sense, this does not pass the smell test.