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Get your claims in !wink!

"Porn Films Now Eligible For Government Subsidies".

LOl. The article's headline is misleading (to get people to read it presumably) as the info underneath this paragraph in quotes seems more realistic and accurate. It would be a logistical and bureaucratic nightmare to claim this money and i don't think one porn producer/director will bother.

"While a glamour model, pornographic actress and webcam sex performers are not eligible under the scheme, those who take the pictures and do the filming are. Directors, producers and sound people who work in porn are also covered. ?Mud wrestlers?, ?cat fighters?, ?topless cleaners? and burlesque performers are explicitly excluded from the subsidy."

Scrapping atvod and allowing mail order sales of R18 DVDs would be a help as well.

I'm confused...Is this a Pete Johnson initiative to drive us out by creating a whole new market of ATVOD regulated producers? !laugh!

Employment is employment. Porn is a job so why not?

I draw your attention to the last paragraph:

Labour MP Fiona Mactaggart, who has called for the subsidy to be axed for the sex industry, told the newspaper: ?I do not think parents would welcome this government-sponsored recruitment into the sex industry...These are entry-level jobs into a world of gross exploitation and violence.?

Is she a member of OBJECT in the Stop Porn Culture brigade

I for one think the world needs to be educated about the porn business. Its being far too creative inn its thinking if it thinks the business is abut exploitation and violence

The DTI have a sizeable presence at the BVE show today. Perhaps we can ask them about it Terry.

one eyed jack wrote:

> I for one think the world needs to be educated about the porn
> business. Its being far too creative inn its thinking if it
> thinks the business is abut exploitation and violence


The problem is that from where I'm sitting, it seems to me that the porn industry as a whole has sat back and allowed the McTaggarts, Harmans and Claire Perrys of this world to perpetuate the myth that "porn is all about violence and exploitation" virtually unchallenged for way too long.

There never seems to be a shortage of talking heads appearing in the media about how "thousands" of women are being "exploited" and "abused" in the porn industry, yet the opposing view never seems to get an airing, except maybe in an occasional obscure documentary that goes out at 11 o'clock on BBC2 on a Monday night to a nationwide audience of about 24.

So come on all you movers and shakers in the biz - get your shit together, stir the pot and don't stand for it!