For example, near an abortion clinic, pro-life demonstrators were prosecuted in Michigan for carrying placards with graphic photos of aborted fetuses. Prosecutors theorized that there was no difference between doiong that and assaulting passersby with actual aborted fetuses.
The courts disagreed and tossed ot the case.
The same principle applies to Huffman. A cable TV subscriber is not the victim of a sex crime. If the First Amendment means any thing, then it applies to even our worst citizen.
(Remember, Huffman was not charged with obscenity.)
It was a late night, non-obscene cable TV show.
There is no danger of being attacked by the penis puppet. As Thomas Edison said, the image is an illusion of motion created by a series of still photographs.
“Relax, it is just a movie.”