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Several weeks ago when the student union of University of Maryland, College Park announced plans to screen Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, considered to be the most expensive porn film every made, all hell broke loose. The film, which had been provided free of charge by its distributor, Digital Playground, was intended to spice up movie night on the campus. But once news of the screening hit the statehouse, senators announced their shock and dismay, threatening to cut off all state funding for any university that allows a public screening of a XXX film. Eventually the university, threatened with financial ruin, relented and canceled the screening. The Baltimore Sun now reports a new page in this adult-content saga: “Students at state universities, upset that a screening of a pornographic movie at the University of Maryland, College Park, was canceled, are fighting back: They are organizing their own screenings of the hard-core film as a gesture of protest.”  But even these DIY porn-outings are causing controversy.  Republican State Senator Andrew Harris has made more veiled threats, telling the Baltimore Sun, "If they want to press the issue with presenting pornography for fun and entertainment in a university facility, with explicit approval of the university, then they would have to deal with that in future budgets.”

Several weeks ago when the student union of University of Maryland, College Park announced plans to screen Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge, considered to be the most expensive porn film every made, all hell broke loose. The film, which had been provided free of charge by its distributor, Digital Playground, was intended to spice up movie night on the campus. But once news of the screening hit the statehouse, senators announced their shock and dismay, threatening to cut off all state funding for any university that allows a public screening of a XXX film. Eventually the university, threatened with financial ruin, relented and canceled the screening. The Baltimore Sun now reports a new page in this adult-content saga: “Students at state universities, upset that a screening of a pornographic movie at the University of Maryland, College Park, was canceled, are fighting back: They are organizing their own screenings of the hard-core film as a gesture of protest.”  But even these DIY porn-outings are causing controversy.  Republican State Senator Andrew Harris has made more veiled threats, telling the Baltimore Sun, "If they want to press the issue with presenting pornography for fun and entertainment in a university facility, with explicit approval of the university, then they would have to deal with that in future budgets.”