Art, sex, and Scalia.

Antonin Scalia gives a talk about law and art at the Juilliard School. One topic: the 1990 statute -- brought on by Mapplethorpe and the "Piss Christ" -- that required the NEA to take decency and values into account as it made its arts grants. Scalia's apt comment:

"I can truly understand the discomfort with government making artistic choices, but the only remedy is to get government out of funding."

Another topic was law and pornography, about which Scalia opined:

"The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good healthy interest in sex and appealing to a depraved interest, whatever that means."

What is less sexy than Scalia, et al, deciding what is "a good healthy interest in sex"?