*Attention All Industry Personnel*

[andy at handiwork]

Thanks for your gracious response Layla; as you see, I wasn't taking a pop at any site you're involved with. Perhaps I should have made it clearer what I was referring to. But I was annoyed at the new American puritanism that equates the sight of a nipple with eternal damnation. Never mind the fact that by placing black circles on a picture they draw even more attention to what they wish to hide. Remember when the 'porn' we were allowed could buy, back in the days, (the UK versions of Private etc) had a black rectangle over dicks and circles over penetration and anything else we had bought the mag for in the first place? Years ago I worked on a video for the Manics, the track was the one about Traci Lords, and the set was liberally strewn with porn mags as props. Every pic of anything worth looking at had the dreaded 'you cant be allowed to see that' black marks. I know 'cos I looked through the lot of them.

[Snake Diamond]

I gather what your refering to, & they do the EXACT same thing over here in the UK, when you purchase alot of magazines/dvd's/vhs films/etc, you will find quite alot of them have the covers to these products like that, to obscure the Naughty bits, for matters of decency, as well as LAW.

As if they were on sale to the public, there is a risk that "puritanic" & or "children" could see the content of the cover, then become offended/corrupted by the lewd content.

This practise on Covers has been in place for years. The images your refering to, on that site are covers to the product.

Adverts to other products, on the same page (obviously from different providers/sources), have full hardcore depictions. One in particular I saw, was an advert/banner for Hillary Scott, with a depiction of a cock up her ass, & her fingers rammed knuckle deep up her pussy.

[andy at handiwork]

There are two issues to do with covering up. In the UK, mags on sale in newsagents etc cant show by law, for example, nipples on the front cover, so a picture is used that doesn't show them either by a strapline or the model's pose. In a lot of outlets such as garages there is a further opaque plastic cover on a lot of 'adult/top-shelf' mags, at the shop owner's discretion presumably. If the price to pay for being finally allowed to buy h/c material at the local papershop is that the mag has a cover on it, I can live with that. Of course in premises that are not open to under 18s there is no requirement to cover up.

[LaylaJade]

Once again! Sorry I know this is annoying!