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X Rated Ban in Australia


Xrated porn sales are banned in most states


 

Offsite Article: Perverse government...


Link Here26th February 2019
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Hardcore porn is illegal across the majority of Australia but it doesn't stop people getting their kicks on Pornhub

See article from news.com.au

 

 

Adult Trade Deficit...

Australian adult trade association explains to the Senate how crap their porn censorship laws are


Link Here25th April 2016
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Representatives of the Eros Association, an Australian adult trade group, told a Senate committee looking into the so-called nanny state , its members were suffering because of restrictions on what they could sell.

While they couldn't sell films depicting certain consensual sex acts, people could still stream them online. Eros business manager Joel Murray told a hearing:

They simply download it or order it from overseas. That's money that doesn't enter the Australian economy. So from an economic perspective it doesn't make sense.

He also criticised the limited list of acceptable practices and fetishes, with many of those not included discriminating against the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

The restrictions of businesses selling adult entertainment are so severe that they are proving unviable. There were only two businesses in the ACT (Canberra) that had X18+ licences and they soon would give them up, he warned. The X18+ licence fee in the ACT ranges from $15,000 to $31,000, with having single films classified costing more than $1000.

The association also raised concerns about state laws that ban the sales of porn in all the major states. Adults can buy and possess X18+ films (with the exception of Western Australia), but only adult stores in the ACT and Northern Territories can sell them.

 

 

Update: Moving to make X prohibition an ex prohibition...

The first parliamentary motion to legalise hardcore porn has been tabled in the Australian state of Victoria


Link Here 27th June 2015
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The first motion to legalise X rated films in an Australian state was tabled in the Victorian Parliament this morning by Fiona Patten of the Australian Sex Party. The motion reads:

That this House

(1) acknowledge that the National Classification Code defines X 18+ as a legal classification of film that contains real depictions of actual sexual activity between consenting adults in which there is no sexual violence or otherwise;

(2) acknowledge that, in Victoria, the sale and exhibition of X 18+ films is prohibited, but the ownership and purchase of such films is legal;

(3) note that this structure is not only illogical, but has enabled the availability of pirated and refused classification films that may feature sexual violence;

(4) change the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 to allow the sale and exhibition of X 18+ films, and bring the Act into line with the Federal Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995, and the Australian Law Reform Commission's 2012 recommendations;

(5) note that this change will allow for tighter regulations of X 18+ films in Victoria, so that adult material is sold only to adults from age restricted areas, ensuring that sexually violent material is not available, and helping to combat piracy.

 

 

Offsite Article: Fifty shades of ambiguity make porn laws a perverse joke...


Link Here16th August 2012
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Australian censorship laws are all over the place and urgently need refining. By Jeff Sparrow

See article from smh.com.au

 

23rd September
2010
  

A Fetish for Non Violent Erotica...

Australian Sex Party sets out their classification policies

The Australian Sex Party have outlined their key polices re state media censorship:

Key Policies:

* To establish a national classification scheme that includes uniform ratings for explicit adult material across all jurisdictions and through all media (including computer games, magazines and films)

*To legalise the sale of and making of X rated films nationally

* To move away from privileging narrow moulds of sexual taste, acts and cultures to expressly include depictions of fetish (currently excluded from Australia's X rating) in a new rating category called Non Violent Erotica

* To actively promote the responsible enjoyment of erotica, endorsing positive messages about consensual and safe sexual activity, and condemning non-consensual sexual activity and sexual violence

*To develop a best practice model with recommendations for the ethical production of pornography that is rewarding and positive for the contributor

*To provide training for all appointees of the Classification Board and Classification Review Board in the latest developments around sexuality to bring them up to date with a pluralistic range of adult sexualities, subcultures, behaviours and body types

* To introduce R, X and NVE ratings for computer games

 

27th October
2009
  

NSW survey shows 72% support legal sale of hardcore DVDs...

Australia is like living in Iran or China

More than 70% in Australia's New South Wales believe that the state's ban on the sale of adult content at brick-and-mortar stores is wrong, according to a study by the Australian Sex Party.

The Australian Sex Party study, commissioned by the Eros Association and Sexpo, was created to assist the party assess the electoral landscape.

Sex Party leader Fiona Patten said that the results were a wake up call to both the Liberal and Labor parties in New South Wales about the moribund morality that is inherent in many of their policies. Both parties continue to fine and jail adult shop owners for selling federally classified X rated film, she said. Its no wonder that over a third of New South Wales voters feel that there is too much religious influence in politics. It's like living in Iran or China.

Politicians have a responsibility to keep abreast of these issues in their electorates and to not be dictated to by a handful of religious ideologues in their party, she said.

In the study conducted over two days this month, 72.1% of citizens supported the legal sale of adult films from age-restricted adult shops, while 20.5% thought they should continue to be banned.




 

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