Jurors have seen a lot of naked bodies at the Michael Jackson child-molestation trial, but the bulk of the bodies have belonged to adult women featured in the pages of Hustler and Barely Legal.

Then on Friday the prosecution let the jury-box denizens take a gander at two books seized from Jackson's bedroom at Neverland Ranch. The books were titled Boys Will Be Boys and The Boy: A Photographic Essay, and they featured portraits of clothed and unclothed preteen males.

Compared to the other peep shows that have gone down in the Santa Maria, California, courtroom, this one was barely revealing. According to the Associated Press, only the books' covers and front pages were displayed to jurors.

Like much of the most compelling evidence in the Jackson trial, the books were the result of law enforcement's 1993-94 probe into the pop star's alleged misdeeds with boys.

One day after Jackson ex-wife Debbie Rowe authored a hagiography of its star client, the defense sought to keep the momentum going by keeping the boy books out of the courtroom.

Defense attorney Robert M. Sanger argued the books had nothing to do with the current case, in which Jackson is accused of masturbating a 13-year-old boy at Neverland in 2003.

"It's just plain stale to bring in something from that far back and try to use it by way of not much more than innuendo," Sanger said.

But prosecutor Ronald J. Zonen said the books showed Jackson's "prurient interest in adolescent boys."

"[In] one of them, about 10 percent of the photographs are complete nude boys," Zonen said. "And [in] the other one, 90 percent of the photographs are completely nude boys."

The books are not illegal to possess--one, The Boy, published in 1964, is a coffee-table-sized title that features shots of the underage cast of the 1963 big-screen adaptation of Lord of the Flies.

Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville, who allowed witnesses to offer accounts of Jackson's alleged illicit behavior from a decade ago, greenlighted the books, as well.

On the stand, Los Angeles Police Detective Rosibel Ferrufino Smith testified that she found the books in a locked file cabinet in Jackson's bedroom during an August 1993 search of the estate.

Sheriff's deputies seized books and magazines from Jackson's bedroom in 2003, as well, but the titles were of the Barely Legal variety. Dozens of such publications have been shown to jurors.

The prosecution has charged that Jackson used explicit photos, mostly of women, to "groom" his alleged victim for sexual activity. But Sanger argued there was no proof that Jackson had showed Boys Will Be Boys or The Boy to anyone, much less children.

Sanger pointed out that The Boy appeared to have been given to, not purchased by, Jackson. An inscription inside the book reads, "To Michael. From your fan. Love, XXXOOO, Rhonda."

Jackson's copy of Boys Will Be Boys also bears an inscription. Its author: Jackson.

"Look at the true spirit of happiness and joy in these boys' faces," Jackson wrote. "This is the spirit of boyhood, a life that I never had and will always dream of. This is the life I want for my children. M.J."

Elsewhere, Melville ruled that reporter Ian Drew could not testify for the prosecution. Drew participated in the shoot for Rowe's Jackson testimonial video. That was the 2003 shoot that the prosecution claimed she was coerced into agreeing to, but it was a shoot that Rowe testified she did willingly. Drew was her inquisitor, running through 105 questions in about nine hours.

Drew, currently a staffer for Us Weekly, conducted the interview in Rowe's Jackson testimonial video. But it was a conversation Drew had with former Jackson manager Ronald Konitzer, an unindicted coconspirator, that intrigued the prosecution. The state was hot for jurors to hear that Konitzer told Drew in February 2003 that the accuser's family would not be available for an interview because they had "escaped" from Neverland. (Jackson's defense maintains the family came and went as they pleased.)

But on the stand, and with jurors cleared from the courtroom, Drew waffled on whether the word "escaped" was used.

"I was on a deadline trying to get an article done, so I wasn't paying attention word for word, knowing that in a trial two years later I would have to remember each part of it," Drew said. "I remember the tone of his conversation more than I remember even the exact words."

In the end, Melville decided there was a "real vagueness" to the reporter's recollection.

With Drew barred, the prosecution ran out of witnesses for the day. It's running out of case almost as fast. Prosecutor Tom Sneddon has said he may wrap up his presentation by Tuesday.

In addition to molestation, Jackson, 46, is accused of plying his accuser with alcohol and conspiring to hold the child and his family captive. The entertainer has pleaded innocent to all charges.