This Week on Adult Site Broker Talk: Attorney Jeffrey Douglas

Douglas is a leading adult industry attorney focusing on criminal defense in state and federal courts. Since 1982, he has advised clients from all segments of the adult entertainment industry, including content creators, major studios, pleasure product manufacturers and distributors and retailers of sexually explicit products and services.

Douglas serves as Chair of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) Board of Directors and is Chairman Emeritus of the First Amendment Lawyers Association (FALA) and is a former Director of the A.C.L.U. Foundation of Southern California.

A nationally recognized spokesperson for the adult entertainment industry and an expert witness, Douglas has appeared regularly in the media, testified before Congress and is the author of numerous articles about the adult industry and the legal issues it faces. He has successfully defended clients in state and federal obscenity cases and is regarded among the leading authorities on 18 U.S.C. 2257.

In a wide-ranging interview, Douglas covered a variety of topics, including the status of state age-verification laws currently spreading around the country. While the FSC has had some success in litigating and lobbying against such laws, they continue to proliferate. If there’s one thing these laws have in common, Douglas suggested, it’s a lack of understanding concerning the industry they seek to regulate.

“The hallmark of every one of these legislative efforts except California… it occurs with absolutely no dialogue with the industry,” Douglas said. “And if there is a true truism, it’s that you can’t effectively regulate an industry that you’re not talking to. You can pass all the regulations you want, but if you don’t understand the industry, you don’t understand what the impact is, it’s not going to work.”

“Jeffrey’s interview was very insightful,” said Bruce the adult site broker, host of the show and CEO of Adult Site Broker. “In part one, we covered many subjects, including age verification laws.”

You can listen to part one of Adult Site Broker Talk’s interview with Jeffrey Douglas now on AdultSiteBrokerTalk.com.