requires anyone placing an explicit photo ad to provide a photo ID

requires anyone placing an explicit photo ad to provide a photo ID, nicknames, maiden names, stage names, professional names and aliases. These records must be available for inspection by the attorney general’ s office. Connection had attempted to comply with the law by cutting out every explicit photo ad from its magazines and sending them with a letter to those advertisers, explaining the new law and its requirements, asking that they submit the proper ID or send a_ “soft” photo that didn’ t require ID. Out of 500 advertisers, only 26 responded with IDs. Patti Thomas spoke about this in her keynote speech at the Conclave ' 97 Convention in Chicago: “It definitely makes it difficult to produce the magazine our readers and subscribers have come to expect, when you don’ t have enough so- called ‘legal’ ads to fill all those pages. And considering that swinging itself is not illegal, why should we have to ‘register our sexual choices’ with the government just to place a personal ad in a magazine? ... |’ ve never really thought of myself as an activist, or as one who was ‘politically involved,’ but over the last few years | think I’ ve finally come to realizing that it’ s going to be necessary to be involved, even if it does mean ‘exposing’ my lifestyle to those who would repress it. | am HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015210