^ Coincidentally, the national newspaper in Canada, the Globe and Mail, has a story today about the ubiquity of sexual choking among young people.
He went to prison on a mailing technicality. Condoning the anal rape of 5-8 year old little girls is not cool. period.
Much easier to obfuscate your real purpose by cloaking it as a misuse of the mail so you can prosecute it as a high profile politically beneficial federal
MH was, as I understand, prosecuted for DISTRIBUTING obscene material, specifically through the US Mail and the Internet, which allowed him to be prosecuted
Plus some of you might find it too easy to use it for hate mail. It's not that hard to obtain.