Austalian Hentai case to go before judge

[Dominus Atheos]

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To sum up, the guy had a previous conviction for real CP in 2003 and now the police found pornographic images of the Simpsons and Power Puff Girls. In America this wouldn't be illegal since as distasteful as it is, no children were actually harmed in the making of it. Apparently Australia feels differently, and they are going to charge his for it.

My only comment is, if you want to satisfy your pedophilic urges with Hentai instead of real girls, (something I'd encourage), could you at least choose better animated characters then the Power Puff Girls?

[Chris OFarrell]

Your tax dollars at work people...

Didn't this get to course because some court ruled that the cartoon characters were 'real people' or something stupid like that?

If so, I wonder if I could do what that Japanese guy did and marry one or something...

[Archaic`]

As far as I knew, that ruling was in Canada, not in Australia. *facepalm*

Probably was related to the ban on small breasts the classification board put out yesterday.

Australia bans small breasts
January 27, 2010 – 11:41 pm
The Australian Sex Party (ASP) said Wednesday that the Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. It comes just a week after it was found that material with depictions of females ejaculating during orgasm are now Refused Classification and Australian Customs directed to confiscate it.

ASP’s Fiona Patten writes on her party’s website that they are starting to see depictions of women in their late 20s being banned because they have an A cup breast size:

“This is in response to a campaign led by Kids Free 2 B Kids and promoted by Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett in Senate Estimates late last year. Mainstream companies such as Larry Flint’s Hustler produce some of the publications that have been banned. These companies are regulated by the FBI to ensure that only adult performers are featured in their publications.”
Patten writes that such bans may be an unintended consequence of the Senator’s actions “but they are largely responsible for the sharp increase in breast size in Australian adult magazines of late”.

How can this be happening

The National Classification Code dictates that anything that describes or depicts a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not) in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult is Refused Classification.

State Crime Acts are also similar. Victoria’s Criminal Code includes the ‘or appears to be’ clause in its definition of child pornography and it doesn’t need to cause offence to a reasonable adult for it to be illegal.

Even if you are 18 years old but you look younger, taking a photograph of your breasts and uploading it to the Internet could land you or someone you know in serious trouble.

Keep in mind it’s highly unlikely that a naked photograph of a 30, 40 or 50 year old woman with small breasts would ‘appear’ to be child pornography on the basis of her breast size alone. Small breasts do not automatically mean something will be banned or is illegal.

A bad message

Australian adult blogger Ms Naughty says we need to look at what this ruling says to Australian women:

“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests somehow stir up the pedophiles. And you only need to mention that “p” word to start a full-scale moral panic in Parliament.”
“Shall we put such hysteria aside and look at what this ruling is saying to Australian women? Basically, it’s classing a certain normal female body type as obscene. It’s declaring all flat chests to be automatically juvenile, something that should not be viewed by anyone because of a fear that it will stir up “base instincts” in certain people.”
“Can the Classification Board be any more insulting or sexist?”
Ejaculations

According to Patten, female ejaculations films are being Refused Classification on one of two grounds:

That the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines or
Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction
“Films that show both male and female ejaculation have routinely been given an X rating since 1983″ said Patten. “The new ruling follows a boom in the numbers of adult films featuring female ejaculation since the pioneering research of Professor Emeritus Beverly Whipple was published in her book The G Spot.”

Content Refused Classification will be blocked to Australian adults under the Government’s planned Internet censorship scheme.

“There are over one million sites featuring female ejaculation and for Australia to be banning depictions and discussion of this important issue, takes us back into the Victorian era where they didn’t even believe that women could have orgasms.”
The ACB has been contacted for comment.

[Vendetta]

Cause hey, it's not like girls don't have enough unrealistic body image issues to deal with.

[tim31]

Fun fact which shouldn't surprise anyone: Australia's national capital sits in the Australian Capital Territory, a federal zone whose laws are some of the most relaxed in the country. If you want hard copy porn you can't buy anywhere else, go to Canberra.

[Darksider]

Fun fact which shouldn't surprise anyone: Australia's national capital sits in the Australian Capital Territory, a federal zone whose laws are some of the most relaxed in the country. If you want hard copy porn you can't buy anywhere else, go to Canberra.

Even if it were legal there, would it be legal to take it into other territories with stricter codes?

[Stark]

Sure, but the nation's capital is peepshow city. The hypocrisy is hilarious.

[Ypoknons]

Please kindly remember that Australian (along with English, Canadian, NZ and to a lesser degree US law) law is highly persuasive in Hong Kong courts. Whilst it has served us well in human rights cases against some of the government's attempts to please Beijing, in this case...

[General Zod]

As far as I knew, that ruling was in Canada, not in Australia. *facepalm*

Probably was related to the ban on small breasts the classification board put out yesterday.

This is kind of hilarious and sad at the same time. What are the chances of this getting overturned through legal action? Because they've pretty much outlawed 80% of all Asian porn.