I understand that the FBI is supposed to be fighting the "War on Porn" however I wasn't aware that they extended their battle beyond the actual physical acts & into the mind of individuals.

I don't think the woman should be prosecuted for this, however taking a look at some of the subjects she wrote about, I can understand how they might have felt "cause for alarm" especially given how hard the US Government is coming down on the adult industry.

What are your thoughts on this? Where do you think they should draw the line? There was a similar case along these lines already within the last year or so, about a kid who wrote a fiction story and was under suspicion of plotting to gun down his peers, based on what he wrote for a school assignment (a creative writing class I believe)

Should Governments be monitoring and censoring imagination? Discuss.

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2005-10-07

Red Rose Stories Shut Down by FBI
By: Tripp Daniels
Posted: 8:10 pm PDT 10-7-2005

PITTSBURGH - In the burgeoning War on Pornography, the feds have determined the written word to be among the enemy.

On Oct. 3, erotic fiction website Red Rose Stories was shuttered by its owner, an apparent victim of obscenity charges.

“Red Rose Stories is a dead site,” owner redrose posted on the home page. “The FBI has succeeded in closing me down.”

redrose noted that federal agents raided her home while she was away, taking computer equipment and diskettes that contained all of her files and site information.

“I am being charged with ‘obsenities,’ and face charges for having posted” original fiction about “bestiality, water sports, scat, bondage and domination, slavery, threesomes, orgies, and sex with children,” red rose continued in her apologetic website posting. “It is considered obscene and is prosecutable. Trust me on this. I found out the hard way.”

The statement goes on to note, “When it comes to free speech, sex stories are not covered. The only legal sex stories are those that involve a man and a woman consenting to missionary position sex in a dark room.”

Although most of the members area of the site has disappeared, “chat will remain, as will some parts of the forum,” redrose wrote. “However, please do not post anything of sexual or political nature in the forum. They men in black are watching, and with the Patriot Act, who knows what they might find threatening now days.”

On Wednesday, two days after redrose closed her website, Web servers containing all of the content for the website MaxHardcore.com were seized by FBI agents in Altadena, Calif., as part of an obscenity investigation surrounding five video titles produced by the site’s parent company, Max World Entertainment. The servers were returned to the company on Thursday, and the website was back online the same day. The U.S. Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section is investigating Max World.