Were there any federal laws against obscenity? Or were they all state and local statutes (which the Bill of Rights was not applied to at the time).
I am certainly no scholar but I am sure they were all state and local.
But thanks to a leftist leaning SCOTUS - remember, a leftist leaning SCOTUS also found that killing unborn babies was constiutitonal - and the ACLU and porn producers, porn is now federally protected “speech”. Even computer generated images of child porn, and written child porn. NAMBLA literature is protected.
For now.