{"id":159,"date":"2006-08-28T20:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T10:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/stupid-australian-censorship-and-damon-and-hunter\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T20:15:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T10:15:49","slug":"stupid-australian-censorship-and-damon-and-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/stupid-australian-censorship-and-damon-and-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Australian Censorship and Damon and Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DamonI’m Australian and I’m a bit embarrassed to say that my country has censored Tony Comstock’s excellent “pornomentary” Damon and Hunter, Doing It Together<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The film recently screend at a gay film festival in Melbourne and was due to show at QueerDoc in Sydney but the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) deemed the movie was too explicit to be shown in public. Tony has now re-edited the film so it can be screened but he’s also spending a fair bit of money appealing the decision.<\/p>\n

You can read all about it at Tony’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I made a comment there that it’s Australian apathy which allows censorship here. We have no official bill of rights protecting our freedom of speech and so the government can happily censor anything it likes. Australians are, for the most part, fairly relaxed about sex and porn, but we also don’t stand up for our rights in this area; it’s too much effort and kind of embarrassing. Everybody likes their bit of smut, but nobody will admit to it by complaining too much. Thus the few religious zealots in power have more control over what we watch and see than they should.<\/p>\n

In the 70s nudity featured regularly on Australian TV, but shows like Number 96<\/em>, which broadcast the first pair of boobs on TV, would not pass the censor’s knife now. That saddens me.<\/p>\n

So I thought I’d post and say: go and buy Damon and Hunter<\/a>. It’s a great movie and it’s also an example of why allowing other people to decide what we can watch is never a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Australian and I’m a bit embarrassed to say that my country has censored Tony Comstock’s excellent “pornomentary” Damon and Hunter, Doing It Together. The film recently screend at a gay film festival in Melbourne and was due to show at QueerDoc in Sydney but the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) deemed the movie was too explicit to be shown in public. Tony has now re-edited the film Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-porn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t