Australia is banning adult films, publications and websites that feature small-breasted women.
The National Classification Code dictates that anything that describes or depicts a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not) in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult is Refused Classification.
State Crime Acts are also similar. Victoria’s Criminal Code includes the ‘or appears to be’ clause in its definition of child pornography and it doesn’t need to cause offence to a reasonable adult for it to be illegal.
Even if you are 18 years old but you look younger, taking a photograph of your breasts and uploading it to the Internet could land you or someone you know in serious trouble.
According to the Register, they've also banned female ejaculation:
The films are being banned on one of two grounds:
1) That the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines or
2) Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction
However, as Ms Patten points out, one of the objections raised the Board is that film performers have been faking the production of ejaculate: this suggests that they are trying to both have their cake and eat it on this issue, since if the liquid in question is fake, there is no policy requiring the censorship of douching or enemas.
They're also ordering that all violent movies (what would be R in America) be packaged in plain brown wrappers, so to speak- effectively, adding "gore stores" to porn stores.
Now, those of you who know what I do for a living either know or have guessed that my personal sexual kink includes a strong preference for the big'uns- the bigger the better. And although small breasts can be nice, flat chests do indeed give me uncomfortable feelings, "um, this is a child, I don't want to look at this."
But that is just me. Other people- and I'll go out on a limb and say more normal people- don't have this problem, and can see a small-breasted woman as a grown, sexual adult, both desirable and eligible for desire. The Australian government's claim that this move is meant to stop pedophiles is, put bluntly, bullshit.
Also bullshit is the Australian government's official response to the news articles above. "We evaluate on a case-by-case basis," they say. In fact, any such evaluation, to be just and legal, must be by set uniform standards- which means that yes, there IS at the very least a strong inclination to ban members of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee from appearing in skin mags.
But the size of the boobs (or the squirt, or whatever) is beside the point. Hustler's Barely Legal magazine and the like is under attack because it is an easy first target. The end goal- and the current conservative Australian government has campaigned on this- is the eventual banning of all erotica and violent entertainment from Australia.
And that, for purposes of full disclosure, would likely mean that all of my tiny company's websites would be inaccessible in Australia. Some of my most supportive fans are Aussies- and it'd be damn annoying if they just vanished one day, or I vanished, either way.
So I say, to hell with conservative pro-war, pro-discrimination, anti-freedom Australian politicians and their "think of the tiny tots" campaign.
I think I'll start my own campaign:
STOP AUSTRALIAN CENSORSHIP: Think of the Tiny Tits.
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