You didn’t answer my question. How does recording yourself having sex and selling it qualify as “speech” under the First Amendment? Sure, my right to protest again things, say what I want in the press, etc, is all speech. But at the time of the Constitution, pornography was outlawed as obscene and not considered “speech” for First Amendment purposes.
All forms of communication/expression are “speech”.
Art is speech, even vile disgusting ‘art’.
Music is speech even violent rap ‘music’.
KKK marching in parades is speech
Violence in movies is speech
Lots of things that I detest are still speech and should be protected by the 1st Ammendment.
Lots of things were going on at the time of the Constitution. For example slavery .... just to name one. Should we go back to all the standards of the day?
The intent of the 1st Ammendment is clear and was written about extensively by the Founders ... namely that free speech counters free speech ... and should be free of government restraint. The caveat is that speech is not without consquences from outside the government (a fact many in Hollywood don’t understand ... see the Dixie Chicks).
You should be free to express any vile thing you want without government restraint. However, how your peers choose to react to your speech is something you’ll be on your own with. That is the unparallel beauty of the 1st Ammendment.
The best way to deal with porn is MORE free speech, not less. For example, find out who those are who are involved in creating and distributing porn and expose them. Shout out their names and what they do for a living in public. Hold signs naming the pornographers outside their children’s school, outside their mother’s home, outside their sister’s kid’s school .... THAT is free speech countering free speech.
Organize a boycott of companies who sell porn in their stores. THAT is free speech countering free speech.
Organize a boycott of those funding porn operations. (Lots of mainstream companies are involved in the making/distributing of porn).
Free speech is a right and IMO a duty of citizens to excercise ... use it to protest what you don’t like.
Don’t ask the government to do what citizens should be doing. If you do, you’ll soon find the government censoring what YOU can say ... how YOU can protest (see proposed hate crimes laws for saying anything negative about homosexuality).
Be careful what you wish for.