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You learn something new everyday. I’ve discovered that in the UK the unofficial rule for deciding whether a photo of a naked man was obscene was called the “Mull of Kintyre Test.”<\/p>\nYou learn something new everyday. I’ve discovered that in the UK the unofficial rule for deciding whether a photo of a naked man was obscene was called the “Mull of Kintyre Test.”<\/p>\n
In Britain it was against the law to publish photos of erect penises. Of course, “erect” can encompass a whole range of turgidity and so to counter this grey area a general consensus was reached: the dick could not have an angle greater than the of the Mull of Kintyre on maps of Scotland.<\/p>\n
According to Wikipedia<\/a> writer Emily Dubberly, editor at Scarlet Magazine<\/em>, pointed out that this rule was a double standard that hampered the development of feminist porn because it denied women a source of visual pleasure that was allowed to men. Apparently the rule is no longer strictly enforced.<\/p>\n Australia still has a rule against showing erect penises in magazines and on television. If a cock is hard, or if a woman’s inner labia can be seen, the publication officially becomes restricted and cannot be sold to people under 18.<\/p>\n The editors at Australian Women’s Forum<\/em> famously kept a protractor handy on their desks and frequently spent time making judgements about whether “the angle of the dangle” was too steep. I’d hazard a guess that a lot of the centerfolds in AWF actually would have failed the British Mull of Kintyre test. There were some rather impressively turgid members on display there.<\/p>\n Now I know about the Mull of Kintyre test, how can I successfully listen to the Paul McCartney song without giggling?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You learn something new everyday. I’ve discovered that in the UK the unofficial rule for deciding whether a photo of a naked man was obscene was called the “Mull of Kintyre Test.” In Britain it was against the law to publish photos of erect penises. Of course, “erect” can encompass a whole range of turgidity and so to counter this grey area a general consensus was reached: the dick could 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],"tags":[914,621],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","tag-naked-men","tag-porn-for-women"],"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