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The proposed Australian Government clampdown on smut just got a whole lot broader, as news emerged of a ban on small breasts and female ejaculation in adult material. The end result of this widening of the censor’s net could be the addition of millions of websites to the internet filter now being proposed. Breasts came under …

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  1. Steve Brooks

    Shemale?

    "and she thinks female orgasms are 'abhorrent'?"

    I'll think you'll find that Senator Joyce Barnaby is actually a man. Well at least he/she dresses like a man, looks like a man and walks like a man, what's actually in his britches, or not as the case may be, is, thankfully, fully censored!

    http://www.barnabyjoyce.com.au/

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Stop

      I think you'll find...

      that Barnaby Joyce is actually a tit, which brings us neatly back to the beginning of our story.

  2. ratfox
    WTF?

    They should also...

    Make breast enlargement surgery mandatory for married women. There are quite a few wives which are encouraging pedophilia whenever they have sex with their husband.

  3. Tikimon
    Big Brother

    Down with the Big Boob Nazis!

    Small is beautiful, doesn't give my Asian wife back pain or bounce painfully when we mountain bike, and doesn't sag to the kneecaps.

    Seriously, Australia and Britain seem to be racing China for most oppressive developed nation status. Unfortunately the US is only a few years behind at most.

    Someone needs to have a revolution quick. A few more years and their universal monitoring will bring the cops to your door for badmouthing the government in an e-mail.

    1. solidsoup
      Big Brother

      US difference

      I think this is impossible in US, despite us being a bunch of prudes. Not a single magazine would be removed from a shelf and the law would be quickly struck down.

      What you, and other people, overlook is that such encroachment on personal freedoms is only possible because there is no bill of rights in Australia or the UK - freedom of speech in not recognized as a right. As such, any freedom of speech aussies and brits possess is virtual. Any speech is free as long as it is not otherwise illegal. However, there is legal basis to challenge a law because it infringes upon free speech.

      Fortunately, UK has adopted European Convention in 1998, where Freedom of Speech is enshrined as a right (food for thought for all those libertarians who oppose EU). That said, it is well known how well UK observes that convention (Phorm anyone?).

      Oz problems are more serious than internet filter, outlawing Simposon's porn, or lack of Adult rating for games. It is a lack of any kind of Freedom of Speech right. Should the government tomorrow decide to censor something out of malice (rather than idiocy and incompetence as is happening now), they have zero legislative roadblocks preventing them from doing so. I would urge Australians to focus on the underlying cause, rather than its symptoms.

      1. AndrueC Silver badge
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        Phorm?

        What does Phorm have to do with freedom of speech?

        'Freedom of speech' concerns what the government and its agencies will allow you to say. I think you'll find that 'Phorm' was conceived and developed by a private company so it's completely irrelevant to the discussion.

        For the same reason you can't use 'freedom of speech' as a complaint if a forum moderator deletes your posts or a pub landlord tells you to shut up.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: US difference

        "What you, and other people, overlook is that such encroachment on personal freedoms is only possible because there is no bill of rights in Australia or the UK"

        Oh how wrong you are. We had one long before you did.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          re our bill of rights

          Sadly the part about "free speech" is just about free speech in the commons e.g. the King can't come in and have you put in the tower for what you say in Parliament.

          The common folk have no free speech.

  4. 1of10

    NEWS UPDATE

    Last update on the ban list...

    "...Australia bans woman's orgasm!..."

    Only men are allow to do them self's in the middle of the desert

    OZ laws are awful jokes!

  5. Christoph
    FAIL

    How to win over the voters

    I wonder how impressed Australian women with non-gigantic breasts are with being told that they don't count as real women? And that their husbands are vile paedophiles for desiring them?

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I look forward to the impending Oz legislation

    whereby all women who fail to achieve a B-cup will receive silicone assistance at the taxpayers' expense

  7. shay mclachlan

    Please stop

    Please stop all these horrible explicit posts, please. Wont someone think the effect they might have on poor Skippy.

  8. Tac
    Paris Hilton

    Sanity

    Please could you consider censoring post like this?

    My self imposed internet filter prevents me from reading most news sites in order to avoid been reminded of the asylum that is the world.

    I'm not sure I can keep going if I have to add you to the list.

    Paris, because I'm trying to find something positive.

  9. LaeMing
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    Well, there goes another career option for me!

    The politicians over here are a decrepit self-serving joke and have been for decades. But people keep voting them in, so I guess we get what the majority deserves.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Has the good Senator considered...

    ... tht a liking for small boobs may have very little to do with paedophilia and much more to do with latent pederasty?

    Assuming that makes it OK in some strange way...

    Paris, just because.

  11. asdf
    Flame

    lol @ OZ

    Dang I was going to flame by posting link to British beer commercial showing OZ cricket players taking bodyline shots to their crotch and ending with quote "Ohhh you pommy bastard" but better not since at work. Oh what great fun it would be to bodyline the Aussies over retarded laws like this.

    1. asdf
      Alert

      clarification

      Last sentence should say bodyline Aussie politicians. The people are only somewhat responsible.

  12. jake Silver badge

    So presumably ...

    If you are caught boinking a 13 year old in Oz, a viable defense would be "But yer onner, she has 32 C tits ... clearly she looks old enough!"

    These fuckheads need to get laid more often ...

  13. LaeMing
    Joke

    Oh, and another thing...

    Next time I am between work contracts I will be requesting a breast enlargement operation to be funded by the Dole office to increase my eligibility for work!

    No intention of going through wit the opp of course - I have no desire to have myself butchered just to satisfy the sexual lusts of some wrinkly old misogynistic has-been politician.

    We need a bill to ban men with small wrinkly willies from public office.

  14. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    When everything is illegal...

    I've been thinking recently, once they outlaw everything, won't the law just become irrelevant? I can just imagine a future conversation... "So you like little girls? Well I happen to like female orgasms, I guess we're in the same boat. Any idea who sells 'special' DVDs around here?" OK I'm exaggerating (at least I THINK I am), but seriously, people WILL have their porn. Pushing it all underground together hardly seems like a good strategic decision if child pornography is the uniquely horrible threat it's made out to be. Plus calling something a vile perversion just doesn't carry the same weight when you say that about everything.

  15. Doris McSquirter
    WTF?

    Like many responses here: WTF?!

    "Senator Joyce claimed that publications featuring small-breasted women were encouraging paedophilia."

    It defies logic - you really couldn't make this crap up.

    1. Winkypop Silver badge
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      Hmmm

      Me thinks they protestest too much....

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I know I'm whispering in a wilderness, but . . .

    To my thinking, there are only a couple of issues here.

    1. We seem to have evolved a class of people whose sexualities depend upon porn in some way. To most of these people I suggest either get a real life or get some therapy. Use of porn should be viewed as having risks in the same way as dependencies upon alcohol and drugs. There are enough studies to suggest exposure to even a small amounts porn has measurable negative effects in our social and personal lives.

    2. Our ability to educate our youth about sexuality in an informed, comprehensive and well rounded manner is hampered by the likes of those pushing for tighter censorship. This is a broadly conservative paintbrush being applied to any pink bits that hove into view, regardless of their presentation. Fix this one properly and most of the first point becomes irrelevant. Include parents in the sex education process, but let them have no say about content. Exclude the church from the process. Put the hideous airbrushed sexuality of mass media into its kennel and let our youngsters evolve in a manner unmolested by the sexual cripples on the two sides of this debate.

  17. the Jim bloke
    Alert

    large enough titles

    So, not only arent women allowed to have orgasms, but they arent allowed to even try to look younger.

    Someone set the fashion, cosmetics, and all the rest of the real female exploitation industries onto these guys. I would almost feel sorry for them - if they weren't such utter arseholes.

    we need a crucifixion icon

  18. Phil 54
    Boffin

    Apple link?

    Does anyone else think that this might have to do with the upcoming trademark battle between Apple and the Canadian bra-stuffing company?

    *Goggles because that female ejaculates stings like hell

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Just because it has to be done!

    I believe this is now comment # 69. Just thought I'd throw that into the ring, as it were...

  20. Futumsh
    WTF?

    When did...

    Australia suddenly become a nation of puritanical, prudish retards?

    Jesus, you'd think that being a nation of crims would have yielded a different result.

  21. Peter Kay
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    Ridiculous

    Whilst I'm not in favour of prematurely sexualising those who aren't sexually mature and think some of the issues underlying the 'barely legal' class of porn could well be a bit dodgy I'm not sure banning it is the answer.

    Like a prior commentator, I'd rather have someone crack one off over a young looking porn model than try and find someone underage in real life. Neither do I appreciate someone giving women yet another reason to judge their attractiveness by the size of their breasts. I do tend to prefer bustier women, but their breasts are never a deciding factor in whether I want to be friends or date them..

    I shudder to think what they'd think of people into age play, especially when both participants are clearly mature adults. Sexuality is somewhat nuanced and complex, and if one type of attraction is outlawed the affected group will merely try and find a different way of satisfying their desires.

  22. chris 130
    Coat

    Porn should only feature large breasted females, its all true

    Its a good point, obviously to save confusion, all porn should only contain the larger breasted variety of female.

    Rather 'ol boy, what !?

  23. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Two birds with the one stone?

    Flat-chested women are very much more likely to achieve orgasm and very much more likely to be among the limited number of women who ejaculate. Higher testosterone levels lead to less breast development and greater development of the paraurethral glands from which the ejaculate comes.

    So if you ban the flat-chested women, you get those who are likely to ejaculate banned at the same time!

  24. Tony Paulazzo
    Jobs Horns

    Discrimination?

    'About the Australian Human Rights Commission

    Working towards an Australian society where human rights are for everyone, everywhere, every day.'

    http://www.hreoc.gov.au/

    There's a lovely picture of a young aboriginal boy on there (and no, I'm not a paedo, tho' he is cute), just wondering if any Australian websites should be allowed to portray images of prepubescent humans - just in case.

    Evil Jobs - just because.

  25. DrCastellanos

    Secondary Sex Characteristics

    What defines an adult woman is actually pubic hair (and hair under the arms). So maybe we should revisit whether there should be any porn with completely shaved pussies! Then we can go back to the bushy 1970's. Just pointing out how short-sighted it is. We are losing sight of what a natural, non-surgically enhanced woman looks like and the variety that exists in the world. We are messing up our own minds by having increasingly more rigid standards of "beauty." Sexy is an attitude and I've seen some amazingly beautiful tiny breasts. Restricting porn based on very small breasts is ridiculous and paranoid. Pedophilia develops early in life and cannot be "created" in adulthood by watching porn.

    With the issue of female ejaculation, I consider that many people cannot tolerate watching it because they think of urination, but that does not mean it is not a natural occurrence that some others might enjoy watching in their porn. Perhaps of banning it, the porn should just be labeled to indicate that it shows images of female ejaculation (like lyric warnings for parents on CDs in the US). Or we can go back to Victorian England and put skirts on the legs of the sofa and tables so as to not get ourselves over-aroused (read: over-repressed).

    http://ReclaimYourSexuality.blogspot.com

  26. mark 177
    Coat

    Cause or Effect

    Has anyone considered *why* small-breasted women have come to dominate pr0n?

    In the old days, men's magazines could still shoot 15 year olds legally - I remember one such case and she had DD breasts!

    Now we have 20 year old women with tiny boobs wearing ribbons and their hair in pig-tails pretending to be schoolgirls (whilst the schoolgirls are all trying to look like 20-somethings).

    Why?

    I would blame the current mass hysteria over "paedophilia" (in inverted comments because true paedophiles are not interested in sexually mature but underage girls - they want children, as in 10 yr old and under). Making something forbidden, especially in a sexual context, tends to make it more arousing for some people. Before the great paedophilia paranoia bloomed, this kind of stuff was as rare as hen's teeth!

  27. cphi
    Flame

    what the f*ck is wrong with my country

    rhetorical question

  28. tyciol
    WTF?

    Wow

    This is just... wow. I've been thinking the commonwealths are all equally bad off in regards to this but Australia just pulled out WAY in front. Sorry Mr. Dundee =(

    I wonder, is this a conspiracy by the food industry and the plastic surgery industry? After all, to do as little as possible to encourage pedophilia, we should have breasts as LARGE as possible. Thus, everyone should eat as much as possible. Fat is stored in the breasts and overeating will make them very large and not look like a child's.

    But that's not enough, we should accentuate this with implants (silicone is popular I hear) to supplement, because sometimes people have high metabolisms which burn off that fat. But I don't care how much you exercise, you won't be metabolizing that silicone!

    I also suggest we outlaw male pornography. Males do not have breasts, therefore their lack of mammarial adipose will remind viewers of a child, and this is a risk we can't take! Men should need to inflate their chests through consuming extra food (I believe 'man boobs' abbr 'moobs' is the term for this) as well as consider getting breast implants as some transgendereds do during a sex change.

    Another issue which was not addressed, but which should be: body hair. A lot of porno actors like to shave hair in various places around their body. This should be outlawed! We can't have them reminding us of children! Even trimming it shouldn't be acceptable. For those actors and actresses who do not naturally grow much hair, they should need to experiment with trichological pharmacology to accelerate their hair growth.

    Furthermore, these hairless flatchested adults are not only a problem in the adult film industry. After all, pornography is NOT the only thing which arouses people. Good-looking people in the media in general tend to arouse people, so therefore we should also ban people without boobs or body hair from appearing in pictures or videos as well. In fact, we really should limit their ability to appear in public altogether, like serving in any sort of occupation that involves leaving the house.

    I also suggest we outlaw chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can cause hair to fall out. If an adult undergoes chemotherapy then they might be confused with an infant, and if we convey that cancer patients still may possess some kind of sexuality, it might turn the population into nepiophiles who think it's AWWRIGHT to go do some cradle-robbin'.

  29. RuthiV

    Quick! Ban everything in case we get any ideas!

    Of course pedophilia is to be reviled but to ban small breasted women because it encourages it? I don't think so. While we're at it why not ban talcum powder in the bathroom it might make someone think of cocaine and encourage them to develop a drug habit. Or how about ban food from an all girl's school in case in encourages bulimia binge eating, but wait! What if that then encourages anorexia! Oh no! what do we do! How about grow a brain it might encourage some thinking!

    This may be a ridiculous post but like answers like.

  30. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    this is what happens ...

    .. when you give the state the keys to your soul "if it saves one child". This is where the path the mob who say "the government should do something about it" leads you.

    To those who insist this could never happen in the UK, I say : it can, and it will. Once we have established the principle the state has a right to pry into your privacy, it's just a question of degree.

  31. kissingthecarpet
    Go

    The madder the better

    The more crazy censorship laws they pass the better - they'll soon reach a tipping point where they become a complete joke to 99% of people, then there'll be the inevitable backlash of a tidal wave of deviancy, which can only be a good thing.

    If they really cared about the abuse of children, they'd give children the same protection that adults have from violence, i.e offences like assault. While adults are allowed to inflict corporal punishment on children legally its obvious that all the noise about paedophilia is emanating from their weird sexuality & not from any genuine desire to protect children. I'm suprised this isn't mentioned more, but then of course, there's a lot of guilty parents out there who don't want that issue addressed ever

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