Erotic Music Law in Washington State
- Artist/Author/Producer: Recording Industry Association of America
- Confronting Bodies: Washington State
- Dates of action: 1992
- Location: Washington state
- Description of the Art Work
- Recordings deemed "erotic" by a judge in one locality.
- Description of incident
- The law, which extended the state's already existing "harmful to minors"
law to cover sound recordings, forced record stores around the state to
place "adults only" labels on recordings which were deemed "erotic."
Anyone who sold a labeled recording to a minor could have been fined or
jailed.
- Results of incident
- Four months after it took effect, Washington state's law repealed in
October, 1992 by a Superior Court Judge in Seattle.
Source: ACLU Arts Censorship Project Newsletter, Fall 1992
