{"id":252,"date":"2007-01-09T17:52:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T07:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/censorship-absurdities\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T07:52:49","slug":"censorship-absurdities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/censorship-absurdities\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship Absurdities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/Media\/20070108-Saddam-leaves-the-censorship-debate-swinging-in-the-balance.html\">Crikey.com<\/a> for publishing this story that reveals Saddam Hussein&#8217;s gruesome hanging video would have got an R rating in Australia, whereas sexually explicit movies &#8220;without artistic merit&#8221; get an X rating and bans.<\/p>\n<p>The Eros Association decries the whole situation as ridiculous, especially in light of their failed attempt to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/11\/the-viva-erotica-challenge-fails\/\" target=\"blank\">Viva Erotica passed as an R rated film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eros&#8217; Fiona Patten says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The CRB is basically saying to the Australian public that the film of Saddam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s execution cannot be said to &#8220;cause offence to a reasonable adult&#8221; while <em>Viva Erotica<\/em> can. This determination is so far from the reality of what Australian public opinion is on these issues that the federal Attorney-General needs to urgently intervene and conduct an enquiry.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tony Comstock has made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comstockfilms.com\/blog\/tony\/2007\/01\/08\/art-vs-porn-part-273\/\">this post<\/a>, pointing out that a horrifying rape scene in the film <em>Hounddog <\/em>involving 12 year old actress Dakota Fanning is regarded as &#8220;art&#8221; but consensual real sex is only &#8220;porn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all rather absurd.<\/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>Thanks to Crikey.com for publishing this story that reveals Saddam Hussein&#8217;s gruesome hanging video would have got an R rating in Australia, whereas sexually explicit movies &#8220;without artistic merit&#8221; get an X rating and bans. The Eros Association decries the whole situation as ridiculous, especially in light of their failed attempt to have Viva Erotica passed as an R rated film. Eros&#8217; Fiona Patten says: &#8220;The CRB is basically saying <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/censorship-absurdities\/\">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-252","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\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}