Oh, please oh please, let this stupid law be struck down in Georgia, Santa Cruz, and everywhere else that has foolishly decided that banishment is an appropriate punishment for anyone who commits any crime with a sexual aspect to it (including things like, say, selling adult DVDs, which is a subjective crime based solely on an individual prosecutor’s aesthetic).
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How does the law deal with the confused area of sex laws? Experience shows there are people out there who can’t control their sexual impulses and cause great harm, and even death to the objects of their lust. On the other hand some adults like to view pornography — a surprisingly large segment of the population if the financial success of the pornography industry is an indicator. Where do we draw the line? Supression of pornography won’t work because laws to suppress pornography could be applied to suppress any unpopular publication merely by some prosecutor labeling it obscene.
In an informed, secular society this would not seem to be a problem. However, our society is neither informed, nor ideally secular.
So the question becomes not only “where do we draw the line,” but “who draws the line.”