conviction: up to seven years and $15,000. For patronizing a swing club

conviction: up to seven years and $15,000. For patronizing a swing club: $300 plus court costs. In California, Tim Leslie, a Republican state senator, has introduced a bill which would provide that “every building or place which, as a primary activity, accommodates or encourages persons to engage in, or to observe other persons engaging in, sexual conduct including, but not limited to, anal intercourse, oral copulation or vaginal intercourse, is a nuisance and shall be enjoined, abated and prevented, and for which damages may be recovered, whether it is a public or private nuisance.” Swinger periodicals range from New Friends to Fuck Thy Neighbor. Patti Thomas, author of Recreational Sex: An Insider’ s Guide to the Swinging Lifestyle, is editor at Connection, which publishes thirteen titles, including Cocoa ’ n Créme, catering to interracial swingers (not to be confused with Black ’ n Blue catering to sadomasochist swingers). Connection is suing the federal government over a bill that Ronald Reagan sent to Congress in 1987, the Child Protection and Obscenity Act, an outgrowth of the Meese Commission on Pornography. The specific statute being challenged—known as the record keeping and labeling law, or the ID law—was supposed to be aimed at child pornography, but has been applied to adults-only swing publications. It HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015209