I’m sad to report that Adultshop.com has failed in it’s bid to get the Australian censors to change the laws regarding explicit material.<\/p>\n
(Here’s my previous post about their legal challenge regarding community standards in Australia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n According to the SMH<\/a>, the Classification Review Board has ruled that Viva Erotica cannot be rated “R” rather than “X” because it primarily has sex in it, without a plot, and thus has no “artistic merit.”<\/p>\n 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 “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,” it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n No reliable evidence?<\/p>\n What the fuck do they need?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sad to report that Adultshop.com has failed in it’s bid to get the Australian censors to change the laws regarding explicit material. (Here’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 “R” rather than “X” because it primarily has sex in it, without a plot, and thus has no 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":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-porn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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