R18 /18 protect kids who are they kidding?

[eroticartist]

I watched an 18 rated DVD last night that a policeman gave me for Christmas called the Hand of the Law directed written and filmed by Anna Span. I watched it with interest because I had not watched an 18 rated porn film for years. As I watched it I became increasingly annoyed because it was an amusing porno film showing everything but close-ups of penile vaginal and oral contact. Much to my surprise it showed group sex, erect penises, open vaginas, anuses, male actors masturbating, ejaculating and actresses fellating and licking up sperm, except for penile and labial close-ups, and most surprising of all a woman flagellating a man while buggering him with a strap on phallus in a scene that left nothing to the imagination.

After I had watched it I thought that the film was quite well made and acted, one of the actresses being Avalon who I had employed in the making of Swingers Club R18, and all it needed to be a really good porn film was the insertion of a few close-ups.

But what is the purpose of 18 rated porno films on DVD? Because they are available by mail order where R18s are and not this film makes a mockery of the raison d?etre of the R18 certification which is supposed, according to the BBFC, to protect children. Paradoxically are allowed to show a man being buggered by a strap on phallus and flagellated, a somewhat un-natural if legal sex act, but not allowed to show the uncensored natural act of sexual intercourse that produced us all as though the depiction is inherently obscene and a perversity a child might happen to see and be corrupted by and such natural acts are classified R18 which means that they are only available on DVD in a licensed sex shop!

I think that the law is corrupt and an ass and that this film proves that beyond any reasonable doubt because if one shows a close-up of an erect penis against a gaping vagina then a pair of swinging testicles and the vigorous exertions of a couple in obviously real sexual intercourse such as in The Hand of the Law, any child or fool can tell what is happening, the mechanics of the act so to speak. So the whole so called purpose of the R18 is shown to be false.

So I say, considering the above, as a filmmaker and artist, that it is right and proper that films showing the natural sexual acts of sexual intercourse and fellatio and so on, in other words the legal acts that contemporary male and females commonly practise together during the sexual act should be given an 18 certificate and furthermore that all certificated films should be available by mail-order. There s no reason to prevent the free passage of such videos to the public and to do so is a denial of Freedom of Expression and an unfair restriction on trade.

Mike Freeman

[number 6]

The whole thing is a joke,agreed.

[one eyed jack]

Seems kids will be less disturbed by seeing a woman screaming before getting her head cut off in 18 cert horror films than seeing a dick in a womans pussy and her wailing with delight.

Crazy, I know.

The BBFC would class one as artistic entertainment and the other as mere porn.

[welkram]

I remember a moral story in a Private magazine back in the 1970's.

There was a picture of a couple having sex with a caption saying "a picture like this is banned in most countries around the world"

The second picture was from 1968 and showed the police chief in Da Nang shooting a VC captive in the head at close range. The caption on that ran
"this picture was shown in most newspapers around the world"

Moral, killings good, fucking's bad.

[Floydoid]

The daft thing is that the BBFC will allow some scenes of penetrative sex in what they term 'non-sex works' 18-rated DVD's. All you have to do is to dress porn up as art.

More info at the good old Melon Farmers.

[blackjaques]

Yes, but the UK is a far better society for having this restriction in place, is it not?
Errr..... makes no difference other than keeping "Middle England" & the Feminazis in the Labour Party happy.

[muswell]

A sad state of affairs that looks set to continue as the VRA has apparently been given Royal assent having had no legal validity from the time of its introduction, see melonfarmers for details.