{"id":232,"date":"2006-12-11T22:01:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/the-viva-erotica-challenge-fails\/"},"modified":"2006-12-11T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T12:01:44","slug":"the-viva-erotica-challenge-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/the-viva-erotica-challenge-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"The Viva Erotica Challenge Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sad to report that Adultshop.com has failed in it&#8217;s bid to get the Australian censors to change the laws regarding explicit material.<\/p>\n<p>(Here&#8217;s my previous post about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/28\/testing-australias-censorship-laws\/\">legal challenge regarding community standards in Australia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/board-upholds-viva-erotica-ban\/2006\/12\/07\/1165081068616.html\" target=\"blank\">SMH<\/a>, the Classification Review Board has ruled that Viva Erotica cannot be rated &#8220;R&#8221; rather than &#8220;X&#8221; because it primarily has sex in it, without a plot, and thus has no &#8220;artistic merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It rejected supporting submissions by the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and an ACNeilsen survey showing just 30 per cent of 1499 adults surveyed were offended by films showing real sex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Classification Review Board has received no reliable evidence, by way of expert opinion or surveys submitted by Adultshop or otherwise, that there has been a shift in current community standards such that content ordinarily classified in the X18+ category could be now acceptable in the R18+ classification category,&#8221; it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No reliable evidence?<\/p>\n<p>What the fuck do they need?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sad to report that Adultshop.com has failed in it&#8217;s bid to get the Australian censors to change the laws regarding explicit material. (Here&#8217;s my previous post about their legal challenge regarding community standards in Australia.) According to the SMH, the Classification Review Board has ruled that Viva Erotica cannot be rated &#8220;R&#8221; rather than &#8220;X&#8221; because it primarily has sex in it, without a plot, and thus has no <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/the-viva-erotica-challenge-fails\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-porn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}