corporate-law jurisdiction
Public exposure/indecency: how do porno companies get away with it?
<p>I hate to ask, but with all the disgusting porn out there how is it legal that some is filmed in public? For example, in Eastern countries such as Hungary do they not have indecent exposure/public nudity/obscenity laws? I think I've even seen some videos on video sharing websites where they are in the US and a women is engaging in sex acts on the street. How isn't this illegal? </p>

<p>It is probably illegal, just not pursued. In the case of something like bank robbery, you'd have a victim that filed a police report. A murder would need to be discovered somehow - either a missing person report or a dead body. If the porn shoot happened somewhere that a member of the public saw it and subsequently filed a police report, the video could be used as evidence. Absent a report, the police simply have no reason to look into it (unless the police catches them in the act, but we probably don't see those videos posted online).</p>

<p>Why would these public offenses go unreported? Perhaps nobody sees it. Perhaps the bystanders in the video are paid extras. Maybe they're filming in what appears to be public but is actually private property. Perhaps they have a permit to use a public space for this purpose. Perhaps they just got lucky. Again, there might be some confirmation bias here - you're not going to see as many videos of folks they catch breaking the law, since they will either be interrupted and stopped or (maybe) have their videos ordered taken down.</p>

<p>I don't have enough to comment, but there are some large porno companies that do this on a regular basis and get away with this. One of their disclaimers states </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>All sexual activities and acts of public sex depicted on example.com
  are fully legal and have been filmed in full compliance with the laws
  of the material's respective country of production</p>
</blockquote>

<p>This question has been raised on other sites</p>

<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/How-legal-and-ethical-is-the-public-stuff-of-those-Princess-Donna-Public-Disgrace-videos" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/How-legal-and-ethical-is-the-public-stuff-of-those-Princess-Donna-Public-Disgrace-videos</a><br>
<a href="http://charlieglickman.com/2011/03/20/consent-and-public-disgrace/" rel="nofollow">http://charlieglickman.com/2011/03/20/consent-and-public-disgrace/</a></p>

<p>It is illegal but, just like bank robbery, it happens.</p>
