i’ve been doing some reading lately and am just beside myself with disbelief as the rudd government attempts to tighten its grip on the freedoms of its citizens. it has been released that the australian classification board (acb) has banned any pornography depicting women with small breasts as it is claimed that it promotes pedophilia. bloody hell, what next? oh wait, showing female ejaculation, that’s what’s next. films showing female ejaculation have been banned for two reasons (from ‘the register’, i will link to it later):
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
how is that any different to the male version of the same function?
two excellent articles can be found at the british site, the register, and at the very aussie, crikey.com.au
i’m honestly shocked and amazed. does kevein rudd really think this is going to matter? it’s like trying to strangle water. it’s never going to work, just like his internet censorship plan. and while the acb claim that it is done on a case by case basis, it doesn’t take away from the fact that the intent is there.
speaking of censorship, the gaming community is still fighting for the acb to create an adults-only rating for games deemed too explicit for general public consumption. the confusing part of this comes as the average age for gamers in australia is over 30 years of age.
while i do agree that some games that depict sexual violence or mentions drugs explicitly should be banned by the acb. but surely adult gamers should at least be given the choice of whether they want to buy these sorts of games. most companies now refuse to edit their games for the australian market, while some that are given an r-rating in other countries actually ‘shoe-horned’ into the MA 15+ rating in australia.
a great article can be found at the global post.