Re: Porno in the EU...
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:07 am
Hi Van der Valk,
The Obscene Publications Act is still in force but as too many people were being acquitted by contemporary juries in the Eighties, including myself at the Old Bailey in 1983. A new law was passed in 1984, by the Thatcher administration, called the Video Recordings Act which basically denies one the right to a trial by judge and jury.
You are guilty under the VRA 84 if you publish a pornographic film without a BBFC classification certificate. The certificate will not be issued if the distributor refuses to make the required cuts. Massive fines are designed to "take out" those who dare to disobey!
R18 films can only be sold in licensed sex shops, not by mail order and definitely not on a market stall like in Amsterdam!
Mike Freeman.
PS when I lived in Amsterdam for six years I had the pleasure of rescuing one of your policewomen from an armed hostage taker. Remember.
The Obscene Publications Act is still in force but as too many people were being acquitted by contemporary juries in the Eighties, including myself at the Old Bailey in 1983. A new law was passed in 1984, by the Thatcher administration, called the Video Recordings Act which basically denies one the right to a trial by judge and jury.
You are guilty under the VRA 84 if you publish a pornographic film without a BBFC classification certificate. The certificate will not be issued if the distributor refuses to make the required cuts. Massive fines are designed to "take out" those who dare to disobey!
R18 films can only be sold in licensed sex shops, not by mail order and definitely not on a market stall like in Amsterdam!
Mike Freeman.
PS when I lived in Amsterdam for six years I had the pleasure of rescuing one of your policewomen from an armed hostage taker. Remember.
