Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Looking for the Poop on Ira Isaacs?


Since Googlers are still coming here in droves looking for links related to Ira Isaacs, the coprophagy and bestiality pornographer currently on trial in Los Angeles thanks to a federal obscenity indictment, my interview with Isaacs is here and the outtakes from that interview are here. The UK Times chimes in here, the New York Daily News here, and the AP here.

"Mr Isaacs has on many occasions compared himself to James Joyce and D.H.Lawrence, both of whom faced obscenity trials in their day. Indeed, Mr Isaacs has chosen to ignore the community standards defence and will instead argue in court that his 'shock art' deserves First Amendment protection.

But can a porno flick involving human defecation seriously be compared with Lady Chatterley's Lover?"

Pictured: The Adoration of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars (2nd Version), 1998, by Chris Ofili