POP/ROCK - March 5, 1992

Record Ban Moves Forward: A bill that would ban the sale of sexually explicit recordings to minors in Washington state has been passed 35-9 by the state Senate and now returns to the House, which is expected to waste little time before agreeing to the Senate amendments and sending it on to the governor. Democratic Gov. Booth Gardner has not said whether he’ll sign it. The bill was introduced after a woman complained that her son learned foul language from 2 Live Crew, a rap group that was cleared of obscenity charges in Florida in 1990. The new measure would add albums, tapes and compact discs to current law that bans the sale to minors of erotic printed materials, photographs, pictures and motion pictures. Erotic material is defined as appealing “to the prurient interest of minors in sex” and “utterly without redeeming social value.”