Australia Bans Small Breasts as “Child Pornography”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 28, 2010 06:25 JST
- Tags: Australia, AV, Censorship, Crime, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Pettanko
Australia has reportedly banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women.
The Australian Sex Party reports even Hustler has seen its publications refused publication, all thanks to the usual moral crusader “think of the children” arguments:
“This is in response to a campaign led by Kids Free 2 B Kids and promoted by Barnaby Joyce and Guy Barnett in Senate Estimates late last year.
Mainstream companies such as Larry Flint’s Hustler produce some of the publications that have been banned.
These companies are regulated by the FBI to ensure that only adult performers are featured in their publications.”
With small breasts now considered obscene, Australian adult rags are said to have suffered sharp increase in breast sizes.
Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of themselves will now be guilty of creating simulated child pornography, to say nothing of the message this sends to women with modestly sized chests or those who favour them.
Australia is also said to have banned pornographic depictions of female ejaculation, a normal orgasmic sexual response in many women, with censors branding it as “abhorrent”:
1. That the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines.
2. Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction.
It seems the UK and Australia are intent on regressing to Victorian standards of morality (although this time anyone criticising homosexuality may find themselves convicted of a hate crime), between them having now banned everything from BDSM to small breasts, even where participants are entirely imaginary.
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That is absolutely crazy. Next all males married to a Female who is not as tall as he is will be arrested for being 'pedophiles' for marrying short girls to get off to it. Then, all females with under C cups will be arrested or be forced to have breast implants, this goes for all girls over the age of 7. . . . . .
Really thinking off the wall there land downunder, maybe hanging upside down for so many years has finally made all the blood rush to your heads down there. No not that one the one that has your nose on it.
waw .... it's true ?.... it must be the stupidest thing I've read
I live in Australia, and this is news to me.
Sure we have a wacky government; but everything they do to us always has a reverse thing coming.
A good example of this is the ADSL2+ naked broadband speed they gave us; yeah they gave us the best speeds we could ever hope for - but then they ruin it by planning to ask EVERY Internet Service Provider to block/hide/remove ALL child pornographic content, and thus as a result slow down our speeds by at least half.
Now they give us this shit. I don't think our prime minister would be behind this though; he even knows how to speak Mandarin! He's probably used to the flat chested atmosphere while studying in China before he became prime minister 8]
You think these laws are weird? Wait till you hear about our 4 minutes showers and other wacky shizz ==;
So when I play eith my wife's breasts, I am a peadophile now? This is discrmination against a-cups and at a time when people are being told be happy with what you have too.
"but none of the ladies in magazines have small breasts, it can't be normal"
What a lame ass country Australia is becoming.
The opening line of the Australian National Anthem:
Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free
LIES! I am Australian and this is just the latest in a string of democratic rights going to hell in this country.
First we have Michael Atkinson being the solitary person preventing an R18+ rating system for the gaming industry, thus inducing heavy censorship on a significant proportion of games which are hacked down to MA15+, which allows teens to get their hands on them when R18+ wouldn't and allow adults proper rights. Not that Michael Atkinson has the brains to comprehend that since he is in the electorate of Croydon, which is about as conservative and old-fashioned as you can get in South Australia. Not to mention him trying to sue the members of the Cheltenham area for speaking out of him allowing the council there to turn a protected recreational area into residential apartments. Or the fact it's fairly implicated that he and other senior members of parliament are protected 'The Family', a secret pedophile society which existed since the days of Don Dunstan and seems to mysteriously protect bastards like him, Peter Liddie. Yet they cause brave souls like Peter Lewis, who have the balls to speak of for what's right, democratic and true, to have to resign. Damn you to the ninth circle of hell, Michael Atkinson!
Then we have the new leader of the Opposition at a National level - Tony Abbott. Who so far has said:
1. Abortion should be illegal in Australia.
2. Women should not have sex before marriage and that it should be made to be so.
3. Contraception is wrong.
4. That Catholics are the most well-informed people of all.
THIS is the person who is leading the Opposition! Hell, Australian women generally hate his guts! The deputy leader of the ruling government told him to get bent yesterday for telling women how to live. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is one of MANY reasons why we will NOT allow them back in power as they were for 1995-2007. During which they also introduced laws (Workplace) which allowed all employers to fire ANY employee without ANY need or reason to justify it. Trust me, the current government is far better than Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and the other bigoted scumbags in the Liberal Party! Damn you, Tony Abbott. And damn you, John Howard, for utterly raping this country for the 12 years you were in power! During which he made TV programs about sex illegal. [unless they were medically related...what's the difference? A naked body is a naked body!](despite the fact that well-behaved, educational shows like Sex/Life were the highest rating shows on TV at the time and generating positive behaviour and views on sex as a result.)
And NOW we have Barnaby Joyce! The average cup size for an Australian woman is B. A generation ago, it was an A-cup! Considering fashion and society in general is being pressured to promote REALISTIC/HEALTHY bodies that are common, of which A-cups are a significant part of that - Barnaby Joyce, you idiot. You were once the maverick of the country as an independent and actually did a bit of good. But now, months after being converted to the Liberal Party, you have lost your balls completely and become a complete traitor. Congratulations on setting back women's rights, democracy and freedoms back about 50-100 years. So now realistic bodies are wrong. So now models with A-cup bodies must now be banished to oblviion and forced to get implants?! At this rate, you just might leapfrog Michael Atkinson as the most hated politician in this country, you utter fool. Yes, I get you're trying to prevent pedophilia on some level. But how is censoring ADULT bodies going to achieve that?! Why are you making all people suffer due to a small proportion of evil pricks, some of which are protected by hypocritical scumbags like Michael Atkinson! Damn you to hell, Barnaby Joyce.
And as for the ruling Labour Party, they wish to introduce the internet filter which will block a multitude of sites, including this, Danbooru, any adult site, etc. Essentially turning this country into a living version of the 1984 nightmare outlined by George Orwell. Kevin Rudd, you've managed to do a lot of good things in your time as Prime Minister (undoing Workplace, reconciliation, negating the global recession, trying to induce climate change plans, contemplating an R18+ rating for the gaming industry) and you're a rightside better than that bigot John Howard was, but this one is just wrong. Senator Conroy should NOT be the only person in Australia who gets to decide what is right and wrong for this country when it comes to the internet! That's pretty much dictatorship standards when one person is deciding what is right for all.
So, since some people asked why we don't change government, this is why:
Independents like Barnaby Joyce are the ones that started this push
Labour is voting in the laws, including people like Michael Atkinson, who enforce even more draconian laws and protect the scum they claim to be safeguarding people from
Liberals like Tony Abbott are a million times more bigoted than Labour ever could be.
So Labour is the best option. Unfortunately, it's a lose-lose situation no matter who's in control. -_-
All I can say is - Australia, take back your rights before it's too late. We are no longer young and free, since it's now a crime to be so. We must prevent this country from turning into the totalitarian nightmares George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Aldous Huxley predicted the world to be heading in. There is still plenty that is good in Australia and I love this country. But it kills me on the inside when inhumane laws like this are being enforced. It reminds me that Australia doesn't have a Bill of Rights in its constitution. Hmmm...
quote: "LIES! I am Australian and this is just the latest in a string of democratic rights going to hell in this country. "
Actually, so called democracy is the main thing at fault here. Enjoy the vote of mindless majority (having absolutely no idea about anything related to economy, politics or even who is going to "represent" them after getting elected), easily manipulated by marketing specialists and media.
It's like rising 3 kids, and using democracy at home to let them vote on what they can or cannot do. They are too stupid for that, in the same way people are too stupid (and lazy, to even do basic research) for voting. Maybe in a perfect world it could work (where everyone had degree in economy, wasn't religious nutter, could respect other opinions, and voted only basing on his own research), but not in the real one.
So, people with radically different propositions (even if logical and reasonable), have absolutely no chance of getting anywhere. You're stuck with big, popular choices.
All in all, nothing will get changed (be it Australia or any other country with developed democracy) - even if for the sole reason, that a politician is a career maker, with not necessarily large period to "shine". Corruption and sucking up are obvious things to begin with. If you can force your ego and views on other people along the way, it's added bonus.
Look at Japan, and the retarded penal code article #175. A bit too lax two-liner responsible for over half a century of mosaics, bars & steaming. Backed by retarded judges and their narrow vision of what is or isn't "moral". Wikipedia has good external references to information about how/why it developed over the years.
If that "Australian sex party" would have a more "serious"-sounding name, it could've become an alternative to the current party...
However, Anonymous, you have the power to change things. On Dec.5th, there were demonstrations throughout the world to protest against Italy's Silvio Berlusconi regime, the No Berlusconi Day, and it was all created and organized on the Internet.
Perhaps nobody in Australia has heard of that law, and some sort of demonstration could open the eyes of some people.
democracy is the problem my friend,i've been checking exposing feminism and also i found this:
http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=a507b1fb-7199-43cd-a9ec-7894f9005e85&t=c [http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=a507b1fb-7199-43cd-a9ec-7894f9005e85&t=c]
A vote for democracy is a vote against a man said this youtube user:
http://www.youtube.com/user/pinegrove33
Anyway i already know better how most of women leaders don't know how to be fair,they run on emotion is the biggest problem why they get offendet and they aren't maded to be as logicical as men.Only a true male reader knows how to lead and not give into womens emotions and does everything with proper reasoning and logic.
You are kinda wrong. Humanity as a whole, men or women, have a tendency of running with their emotions. Therefore, we are much better off being governed by supercomputers that are incapable of ANY emotion and only exist to make logical deductions and calculations.
Such a supercomputer does not exist and even if it does exist, its rule could be downright dehumanizing since it may consider what makes us human as the root to all problems and ban them all, turning us into machines in all but form.
yes human run on emotion.And male logic,emotions that come from a man that had a proper amount of masculinity in their life can lead better for everyone.Becouse women logic ain't the same as male logic and if they they get affected by female emotions and don't stand up against them when it is needed like in times of reccesion there.
Obama did see how important is the male workforce,but then he had to give money to the female sectors which weren't affected by recession.Thus many male workers lost their job.
No matter what people say,men are still who take all those dirty,dangerous jobs where they have to work over 50 hours a week sometimes to build up society.
Btw obama wasn't raised into a masculine household or had a good male caretaker to learn him some masculinity,even his sister was abusing him physicly and he never standed against her.
I do not believe a leader like him can make it when he bends down too much.
It isn't really much about masculinity, it's whether the person has got the interest of the people in mind, the backbone to see it through, and the humbleness to think of and listen to the people.
Look at all the visionaries. Take, for example, Abraham Lincoln. He cares about the people around him and he has got a backbone to get it done despite it resulting in a civil war. If he doesn't care about his country and cares more about his personal well being, he would not be the famous president who abolished slavery, he would be a tyrant!
And that is very much lacking in what we are seeing here. A leader who does not give a damn enough to listen to what the people are saying and is running off with personal bias based on personal values. This is the makings of a tyrant.
They will soon make sex illegal with A-cups. They don't deserve it in their mind. Them politicians all must have some serious mommy-complex.
Lemme see if I got this straight: A cup = child and B cup = adult? That's some of the most fucked-up shit I ever heard. By that reasoning my GF with A cups is a loli and her two daughters with larger breasts are adults...
a = child
b = grey zone
c = could be adult
d = close to be an adult
e = adult with small breasts
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.
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no more DFC on my 18+ women? what has this world come to.
Madness.
This is so absurd, I really don't even know what to say about it. WTF, Australia? WTF?
Australia - where discrimination is legal.
australia - where madness is legal!
With all the monsters living here they are excused for going mad, actually...
I live in Australia and the first i hear of this is on this website.I hope this is just a joke because i like my small breasted women. I'm off the my local member to find out wtf is going on.
Australia is a nation of trolls. It's the only reasonable explanation.
Lol, fucking feminists asked for it.
Feminist: PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! BAN PORNO BECAUSE IT DEMEANS WOMEN. BAN LOLI MANGA BECAUSE IT PROMOTES PEDOPHILIA.
Actually hardcore pornography IS banned in Australia.
TO the umpteenth layer of Hell with the kids!
They have way too many rights!
They get away with anything--even MURDER!
Give kids an inch, soon they kill you in your sleep at night!!
If only Australia had it's own Revolution during the 1800's than I won't have to put up with this bullshit and we would have our own 18+ video game laws. But nooooo we had to stick with the British monochy. Bunch of kissass
In the future, they'll start asking short, D-cupped women to play children on tv shows because, frankly, showing children will depict paedophilia.
OMG. WTF.
I like how this is the first time I've heard of this, and I'm Australian. Good job local media.
wew...that's sick.
For more australian paranoia, you can always check out:
http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/
this link is already given in the article, hidden behind the word "reports"
I hope this law will never be active, or at least revoked. Couldnt see if it is already active.
Roastbeef Union & Kangaroo Land, they fail & suck hard!
This is discrimination against small breasted women, and the men who love them. I can't see how this can be legal. Next up, the age of consent raised to 25?
The age of consent shall be raised to the Cup size B! (Or lowered I guess...)
And the idiotic rules begin to fly in 2010...
If 2009 banned rape in Eroge, 2010 banned REAL women with small breasts..?
Ugh...I can't wait for the next (perverted) generation to grow up and replace this stupid, old-fashioned, "can't get some because I am fat and ugly" moralfag idiots running the rules...
Seems like some Australian politic fell for a trap and thought 'nevermore'
Australia wants to become next Big Breast Super Power then by all means let them become one.
Comments from Austrailians in this thread have let me finally understand this one. It's not supposed to make sense. It's a trick by people opposed to all pornography to eliminate a portion of their target. Many more dishonest bans will follows.
Can Australians really not manage to keep these people out of their government?
Their brain got fried by senseless big boob anime like Qwaser. They're in dire need of some Kugirie anime or they'll keep failing.
Interesting... Australia used to more open-minded before. Maybe a result of having a right-wing government in power too long?
How terrible prejudice
tsurupettan is not only with loli
That's just stupid and furthermore it's a discrimination against all women with small breast
Meanwhile, in Brazil, 7 years old lolis can be Queens of Carnival's groups.
http://carnaval.ig.com.br/noticias/riodejaneiro/2010/01/27/enquete+voce+concorda+com+a+escolha+de+uma+crianca+para+rainha+de+bateria+9378678.html [http://carnaval.ig.com.br/noticias/riodejaneiro/2010/01/27/enquete voce concorda com a escolha de uma crianca para rainha de bateria 9378678.html]
http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/noticias/0,,OI4230806-EI306,00.html
I hate my country.
Hell, if Britain, Canada and Australia want Victorian standards, why not just raise Queen Victoria herself from the dead already!?
I'm glad America had a revolution!
Canada has no such ridiculous laws regulating our porn.
True, they just ban children from the internet.
as an Aussie i envy your rights
I think it's time to revolt against the government. To bad most australians have the attitude "she'll be right" I'm so sick of hearing that.
If something isn't being done to abolish this law, then I'm gonna go down there and make them.
Also, I find this so ridiculously offensive and unjust that I feel like I've been slapped in the face.
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it. What most people don't realise is that Australians have only one right given to them in the constitution: The right to vote. No freedom of speech or expression. Raise any objection and the government will swiftly shut you up and there isn't a damned thing any of us can do about it. Sadly the average Aussie doesn't realise this and anyone who tries to tell them is quickly silenced and labelled a terrorist or a paedophile just to make sure the nation ignores what they said.
Let us all go and KILL EVERY CHILD...-FRIENDLY thing in Australia!!
American beer lovers: If you love pettankos and small-breasted ladies, boycott Oz!
Stop buying Foster's Beers!
Go back to Budweiser!
Not even Australians are stupid enough to dring Fosters.. we send that crap overseas.. lol
you have got too fucking kidding me!
there are married woman out whom after breast feeding their child became A cup. Are they children are those 25+ year old woman loli? censorship can go fuck itself first they edit the violence out of anime because apparently 'children watch it' now THIS
So that country is going to band Small Breasted women in the porn Industry?
NUKE CANBERRA!
That's right. No more A-cups in Australian porn.
Family First, I will get you, I will get you for this conspiracy against my sexuality!
Its most likely Family First who did this and that politician that throws out random crap all the time just to screw people over by the looks of things. Most of his arguments dont even make sence, very few of them get though.
Pettan, Pettan, Tsurupettan...
Umm I don't know what to say other than Australia is freaking crazy. So is the UK. I mean banning small breasts from adult women? That's an absurd law. Isn't that more insulting to women than actually protecting children?
This was the last I would expect from Australia :-(
And I thought nothing rivals the logic failure of a rape victim being lashed and the rapist pardoned... Apparently. I'm DEAD WRONG.
I wonder if those who passed this law has actually measured the bust/cup sizes of the female peers in the parliament?
Oh, wait... it's either that there's no woman in Aussie parliament OR all of them are rich enough to pay for breast transplants OR they happened to be blessed with something larger than A-cup.
Seriously, I almost thought of taking a picture of an Aussie parliament member having his way with his A-cup wife and cry "Pedo!!" to his face while spreading the picture.
Ah, government body... How I love that when they're going to be an ass, they do a really good job at it.
yes, lets take away their adult rights while they're at it.
they're gay
f them aussies. and they're the closest in typing you know what. laws are getting dumber now. we need a revamp(waits for meteor hit the world)
So now most Asian women who visit Australia are labled as lost child
That is the most fucked up shit relating to oppression of free speech in the western world that I have ever heard.
Indeed it is. In fact it's so ridiculous that even usually porn-bashing feminist organizations are on the move to counter the ban.
I think it is time to liberate Australia and give them a real constitution that was not designed to deal with governing criminals.
Good thing I'm moving to Japan next year to teach English.
>teach english
You mean raip little girls and give them broken video games in return?
Golden showers is a category.... xD
I'm surprised it's Australia doing this, you'd at least think the Britfags would be first.
Then again, Australians are decendants of Britfag convicts, so I guess we'll see the law being passed here soon or sooner.
Not that it matters anymore. The Australian Government is set on turning the internet status here into China even though 90% of the population is against it (and the other 10% don't use the internet). We won't be able to look at any kind of porn online anyway, so why bother doing stupid crap like this?
The way it looks like its going to work i wouldn't be surprised if everything on the internet is going to be banned just cause people want to do it for shits'n'giggles
Awesome. So, instead of being 21, I'm actually 12? It's a good thing I don't live in Australia, or I guess my husband would get arrested for marrying me/having sex with me, since I'm clearly underage for having AA-cups. Oh, since I'm not even an A-cup, does that make me younger? Like, maybe six years old? Either way, I'm clearly a child, and my body is clearly what's causing pedophelia. What the hell, seriously.
You know, if we want to eliminate pedophelia, we should BAN CHILDREN. That'll fix that problem right up, don't you think?
Fuck society for giving us flat-chested women yet another reason to feel self-conscious about our size, or lack thereof.
To HELL with the children!!
This also puts all A-cupped porn actresses in Australia out of work. In an already struggling economy, this is awfully unfair. Not only are they being told their bodies aren't good enough for their line of work and that they look like children, but they're having their jobs swept from under their feet. How cruel, Australia!! How could you?! DFC is beautiful!!
If A cup is considered a child, what makes early bloomers?
GDI I'm an Australian A-cup woman. Guess I'm under arrest for existing. 8(
I think this has more to do with the fact that most the anime and hentai looks like little children and seeing as children have small breasts, they blocked it. its about time something was done about the paedophilia in anime and hentai.
@Anon
Most anime and hentai have eyeballs eating up half their head. They look like cartoon versions of the Alien Greys, dumbass
So, what you're saying, whenever YOU watch something sexy, YOU see little children? ...hmmmmm
Australia did TRY to have a revolution in Balarat but they lost, they even had their own flag! it was called the Eureka Flag or Southern Cross Flag!
humanity is entirely stupid. this is an example of that complete and utter stupidity. honestly, who would think of something like this to pull? its purely idiotic, regardless of where or who they are.
Dunno if it has been mentioned, but it seems the net jumped the gun. There is a ban of sorts on images that depict girls that appear underage (AKA: barely legal), but that's it. Let's hope that is as far as it goes though. Aussie government is made of fail for various reasons TBH. Really needs to get with the times.
disgusting.
the more i read such wasted laws, the more i think we as hentais are quite more reasonable people than those narrow minded "lets do this and this shit " law changers.they should ban themselves
i will provide you with free pics of flat breasted women for free as a protest for this dumbshitting.
plz write to musashi 75
What. The. Fuck. Is. It. With. Australia.
fuck i hate it here
oh well im a small breasted women and i think now the govement needs to pay me 5000 dollers to get breast implants just so i dont get abused by disgusting sick men or women who think i may look like a child..common govenment pay up save all us poor small breasted women from this.....
kill those bigots with fire
australia is now ma favorite country!!!!
i now know where my new vacation destination is for this year!
Boycott Austrailian porn!
This reminds me of this http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2007/09/16/39167.html#000
Discrimination based on appearance in a developed country. Yay regression!
People, this is why you have to WAKE UP! It's time to realize that this is NOT about protecting children (if it ever was) from forced sexual encounters, but about creating an 'underclass' of people akin to the homosexuals 30+ years ago.
so only a pedo can be attracted to me now...great -_-
We all know you're a sexy anonymous, don't worry about it.
Laws like this are not only happening in Australia, but all over the western world. It goes like this. Reality, there are a billion people in the west. Sexual crimes against children are reported throughtout the west as it is adhorent, and therefore sells the media it is exposed in, so in the UK you may read about incest in the US, etc. Dispite this such news is not a daily event. So such crimes are really rare, a fraction of a percent of western adults. I mean, half a billion adults, if just 1% were pedophiles, thats 5 million out commiting these crimes, and the news would have to have a separate section just to cover it. So why all the panic over pedophillia. Well the politicians are caught between a rock and a hard place. Certain people in the community take any such news and make it out to be happening in every household. They then demand politicians bring in draconian laws to combat it. The politicians hesitate and they are buried under an avalanche of "you are supporting the rape of children" headlines in the media. So they give in. And we have a new law. The west is ruled not by politicians, but by ultraright conservatives with media backing and a hidden agenda.
(The west is ruled not by politicians, but by ultraright conservatives with media backing and a hidden agenda.)\
Absolutely correct; CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and on a rare occasion FOX. (Just to put a face on the devil, since these are the ones complaining the most and loudest, with CNN leading the pack.)
The truth of the matter is that the law has arrested almost all the net-pedos, and lacking real child molesters to crusade against, they now have to name something else as pedo, or their little crusade dies. A crusade can't exist without something to campaign against.