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Can someone update the Video Suppliers - Abroad Links page with something on the legality of importing titles? I know it's illegal to sell in the UK, but is it legal for a customer to buy abroad and have something h/c imported?

As long as what you are trying to import is not considered offensive by HMCE (ie kiddie porn/beastiliaty etc)it will get thro OK.

I know because I have just suceesfully imported a Rick Savage DVD from Galaxy Entertainment in the US, and it came in an unopened box with a lable clearly statiing that it was a DVD !!

You win somw, you lose some. I've had 2 DVDs come through no problem from the staes and one tape, only the tape was paused in its journey and I had to pay customs duty on it, but it all boils down to the material in the film.

HM Customs also confiscate watersports vids - or vids featuring watersports (and they include women squirting in this)

I was going to say they didn't like them - the truth probably is that they like them too much to part with them!

My latest purchase got through OK and that featured a woman dribbling, they must be fans of Laylas as they confiscated somebody elses copy.

Fisting is also confiscated.
Now anything else while we're on the subject?........................ohh yeah, films featuring scat as well.

I am just idly curious-do the authorities never go after the purchasers once they have IDed an imported vid/DVD as non-R18 &/or "forbidden"?? Here in the U.S. under federal law, the buyer is as liable as the sender for obscene materials crossing state lines, tho as a practical matter prosecutions for non-kiddie porn are rare. But back c. 1990 a local judge was arrested by the FBI, house & office searched,& he was indicted by a federal grand jury, for receiving non-HC B&D tapes from Bean Blossom. He ended up killing himself.

All the videos mentioned here could be confiscated and the recipients prosecuted under the Customs & Excise Management Act 1979. The vagueness of the Obscene Pubs Act does not help.
http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk is an essential read on this.