Hi Jeremy
As Woodward say's, there is a lot of stigma against the S&M community in the UK, hence publishers move their operations outside of the UK legal jurisdiction and opt for delivering their products electronically - this suits them and their consumers, who find it safer to download, keeping the prying eyes of customs at bay. This brings me back to my original point, this makes it harder for the authorities to catch publishers and consumers at home - so they go after soft targets just like webwomen. As I said, these guys have to justify their wages somehow. Kicking down doors mob handed offers that.
Alex - on the issue of location, webwomen has said that she is in a business zone. On the issue of the media and how it would be played out, you are preaching to the choir - I know exactly how they play it out - what I don't expect to see is an adult webmaster using some of their lame reactionary scare mongering tactics on an adult board - it sure came across that way.
Wazza - the population of the UK are getting spanked in lots of ways mate ;-)