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| Subject: OZschwitz rights violation: Innocent man's ordeal and society's mixed messages on porn Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:30 pm | |
| With outdated - and largely ignored - censorship laws, the pornographic retail industry is in dire need of sensible regulation, or at the very least open discussion. Jeff Sparrow speaks to one victim of the irregularities of a confused system.
"What was jail like?'' Darrell Cohen stares at me, and then his face scrunches up. His head slumps into his hands and he begins, wordlessly, to sob.
Few people know that, throughout the states of Australia, retailing X-rated pornography remains illegal. You can own the stuff, you can buy it, but you are not allowed to sell it.
The National Classification Code - which governs the censorship of literature, film, TV and video games - reflects a heated battle over video pornography in the 1980s.
http://www.watoday.com.au/national/video-nasty-one-mans-ordeal-and-societys-mixed-messages-on-porn-20120818-24f0x.html |
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