[karajorma]

http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/australia-bans-small-breasts/

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.

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?”

This is a rather interesting development. If this goes on long enough and if the only porn available is porn with big boobs then this will probably cause a quite big shift towards Australian men only liking big boobs with the effect of making small breasted women feeling even more self concious about themselves.

I do admittedly find it funny that Australians have decided that the only reason anyone can be sexually attracted to a small breasted woman is because they're secretly a paedophile though.

[Dilmah G]

Okay.


What. The ****.

[Pred the Penguin]

That's just messed up...

[TrashMan]

 

That's the most insane law EVAR!!!

[headdie]

and i though some American law makes had lost the plot

[Dilmah G]

If I was less thankful for what this country has given me, I'd say almost say this makes me ashamed to be Australian.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I thought the size of a woman's breasts is determined genetically.

[Ghostavo]

I laughed at one of the comments.

Shall we ban tiny penises too?

 

[iamzack]

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[TopAce]

Who decides which women look not-adult-enough?

[Herra Tohtori]

what


two words


civil disobedience

[NGTM-1R]

What's their reasoning behind the non-squirting decision, though?

[BloodEagle]

What's their reasoning behind the non-squirting decision, though?

If they can't get a woman to, then no one can be allowed to show it?

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This whole thing is fundamentally wrong on so many levels. I can't imagine Australians putting up with this nonsense for much longer.

[Dilmah G]

What's their reasoning behind the non-squirting decision, though?

Apparently golden showers are illegal in this country.

But this, this is ****ing absurd. Someone needs to slap these blokes across the face and knock some sense into them.

EDIT: Oh, and our backwards nation seems to think squirting comes under the category of golden showers...

[Colonol Dekker]

I do see the sense in it. And to be honest, if someone wants to find small boob porn. The intermets readily available if they want it badly enough.   
 
This will have no impact on the target demographic. Just the old ones. And they should be ashamed anyway.

[Herra Tohtori]

Dekker, the point is not whether or not someone likes to watch images of nekkid person that "appears to be" underage. The point is this:

-"or appears to be" is something that totally does not belong to any legislation. It's ambiguous, free to interpretation and bad for the credibility of the law.

-chest size is not a reliable measure of age.

-the point of anti-cp legislation is to protect underage people from abuse. If someone looks like they're fifteen when they're twenty-two, that shouldn't be a problem for them to pursue their career of choice (much as I would want to disagree with the integrity of said career, but that is irrelevant). Even less irrelevant is how someone perceives the imagery of said person.

I could think of more points why this is not exactly my idea of good legislation, but these I believe are the most glaringly obvious.


EDIT: As Kyon points out;




 

[Black Wolf]

What's their reasoning behind the non-squirting decision, though?

Apparently golden showers are illegal in this country.

Only depictions of - AFAIK, you're still right to piss on nayone over 18 who's willing to let you do it.

As for the censorship, it's no surprise. The ratings people over here are wacky. TBH, I'm much more annoyed by this internet filter they want to use for the same stuff, as is a huge chunk of the population. Not to mention the stuff going on over east against artists and whatnot.

Herra - "Appears to be" is a subset of "A reasonable adult", which is all through our legislation. On the one hand, yes, it makes the law a bit ambiguous, but it's generally used to good effect, and when it isn't, people notice.

[EDIT]Ah, I thought there was more to it than there seemd. According to The Australian the classification board isn't exactly political neutral any more. This is a hangover from 11 years of conservative rule.

[Dilmah G]

This country has a habit of going nowhere fast, whichever way you look at it these days.

[Darius]

Don't forget Mike Atkinson. 

We need people like Margaret Pomeranz to step forward and deliver us from purgatory.

[Colonol Dekker]

I appreciate where you're coming from Herra. I just don't agree