Censorship News

01.03.07 - Board to study positions on porn

The Classification Review Board has agreed to conduct research into whether the so-called reasonable adult is offended by films that show actual sexual intercourse, writes Senior Journalist Caroline Overington for The Australian newspaper.

An interesting development given AdultShop.com's main argument in today's Federal Court challenge is that the Classification Review Board has not conducted any research into community standards, and if they were to would find that the reasonable adult is not offended by explicit erotic films.

The article can be accessed here

 

Published Thursday, 1 March 2007 11:50 AM by Editor
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derwent said:

This needs to be watched very carefully. How forum participants are selected could introduce significant bias, as could the wording of any survey questions.

March 1, 2007 5:29 PM