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In 1984 , while attending The Art Institute of Chicago, Sotos began producing a self-published Newsletter or " Fanzine " named '' Pure '', notable as the first zine dedicated to Serial Killer lore. Much of the text and pictures in Pure were photocopied images from major newspapers and other print media. Sotos also used a photocopy from a magazine of child pornography as the cover of issue#2 of ''Pure''. In 1986 this cover led to his arrest and charges of Obscenity and possession of Child Pornography . The charges of Obscenity were dropped, but Sotos eventually was found guilty of the possession charge, and was given a suspended sentence and a fine. Sotos was the first person in the United States ever to be charged for ''owning'' child pornography. Sotos' writings explore sadistic and Pedophilic sexual impulses in their many, often hidden, guises. Often using First Person Narrative s, his prose takes on the Point Of View of the Sexual Predator . Despite his early legal troubles, and the seemingly fatal stigma of being (falsely) labeled a pedophile, Sotos continues to garner support for his ideas and literary output. He was until 2003 a seminal member of the Industrial Noise band Whitehouse . QUOTATION
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