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by qingcharles 8 days ago
> You can write erotic fiction legally right?

Not fully true, in the USA at least. While most erotica is constitutionally protected, "obscenity" is not. To determine if a written work crosses the line from protected erotica into illegal obscenity, US courts apply the Miller Test (established in a SCOTUS case in 1973).