Clarification of laws regarding UK DVDs

[4merFCFan]

So, let's get something cleared up: Can we mail order adult DVDs from places in the UK, or is that against the law? What about ordering from Europe, or from the States? I've seen some companies who have a UK postal address, but their base is in Europe - the Netherlands to be precise.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[4merFCFan]

Sorry about the double post, but I can't see an edit button.

These are the companies in question:

www.blissbox.com

http://www.excaliburfilms.com/excal.htm

http://www.adultdvdsite.co.uk/

http://www.adult-dvd.co.uk/

The latter has an address in the UK and in Netherlands:

GLOBAL INTERNET
BRT/EIN/179962/Uk
Po Box 66
Hounslow
TW5 9RT
UK

Global Internet B.V.
Rondebeltweg 2
1329 BA Almere
The Netherlands
tel: 0031365219079
Freephone: 0080033006600 (NL-UK-DE)

I assume the UK address is for the convenience of those UK customers wishing to pay by cheque/postal order, as they accept both of these.


Thanks again!

[andy at handiwork]

It is illegal to sell 18R or uncertificated DVDs by mail from a UK address. I wonder why a government that says red tape is holding back companies in other fields never seems to relax the rules when it comes to porn.
You can buy from abroad as long as the material is not covered by the fatuous 'extreme-porn' regulations.

[4merFCFan]

Thanks for that - so that must be why they have a UK address to make orders to, but the actual DVDs are dispatched from the Netherlands? Where does that leave Fiona Cooper then - they most definitely dispatch from an address in the UK - is it illegal to buy via mail order from a place in the UK, or is it only illegal to sell them - either way, FC must be breaking the law, no? And they've been around for decades - selling to people both in the UK and abroad...

I don't understand these laws at all - as long as you're not selling them on, or allowing minors to view them, what the hell is the government's problem?

[andy at handiwork]

Why FC has not been done remains one of the great unanswered questions of the UK porn biz.

[jj]

4merFCFan wrote:
> what the hell is the government's problem?

Don't expect a rational defence- there isn't one. Government has no business
attempting to regulate personal morality.
Look at the mess they've gotten into with drugs, and trafficking for prostitution:
billions spent annually in a futile attempt to stem the tide, serving only to fuel
crime as growth-industry. The answer is to drop the pretence: legalise both, tax
them, and remove the element of criminality. Drug-addicts need help, not imprisonment;
prostitutes [who often also fall into the first category] need protection and
stability, not pseudo-moral persecution.