Australia Bans Small Breasted Women From Porn

The government continues to protect us (and our children):

Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. They banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women. Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of themselves will now be guilty of creating simulated child pornography, to say nothing of the message this sends to women with modestly sized chests or those who favour them. Australia has also banned pornographic depictions of female ejaculation, a normal orgasmic sexual response in many women, with censors branding it as ‘abhorrent.’

This has all been good publicity for The Sex Party, who broke the story.

[Via Instapundit]

14 thoughts on “Australia Bans Small Breasted Women From Porn”

Err, sorry, you should have fact checked this one http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/29/has-australia-really-banned-small-breasts/

I think some of the comments on the linked article go a long way as to saying why there is still cause concern… The guidelines for the ACB are just too vague – in short, you have a creepy situation where a group of people sit and watch this stuff, and decide whether you should be allowed to.

It seems I’m quoting other people’s comments a lot lately – but what what the hell:

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Posted Friday, 29 January 2010 at 10:29 am | Permalink

Of course the Guidelines don’t specify breast size. The guidelines are deliberately vague and open to interpretation by Classification Board members. Go and take a look to see how much is actually “specified”: http://www.comlaw.gov.au/ComLaw/Legislation/LegislativeInstrumentCompilation1.nsf/0/149B1F3EC2A074C6CA257412000164C7/$file/PublicationsGuidelines2005.pdf

Each “case by case” basis sets an example.

Have ACB at all denied that they refused classification to an image of a woman who – despite the magazine she appeared in being regulated by the FBI to ensure its models are over age – had small breasts on the basis that she “appeared under-developed”?

The decision clearly sets a precedent for rejecting images of women because their anatomy doesn’t measure up to some stereotyped notion that all “matured” women should have the measurements of Marilyn Monroe.

I’ve got a 26 year old female friend who has the body type of a 12 year old boy. Does that mean she shouldn’t be allowed to pose nude?

Maybe the “truth” is that the internet outrage is actually a reflection of the fact that there is growing awareness of how arbitrary Australian censorship is.

If this is all just a storm in a teacup, then why have the Classification Board failed to directly deny the allegations made against them?

I don’t know what people are complaining about – this is a government that cares for the people. It’s good that we shouldn’t have to look at small breasted women, just like we shouldn’t have to look at unattractive women. I think it’s great that the ACB ‘Itty Bitty Titty Committee’ is keeping me from having to view anything smaller than Pamela Anderson. It’s the right thing to do, sub-standard women have no place in our society.

But sexism from sub-standard libertarians obviously does, Michael.

A lack of irony has no place in blog comments!

Ben, you’re an uptight moron.

It’s often hard to tell the difference between ‘ironic’ sexism and honest sexism.

Although I think I’m pretty relaxed, it is completely possible that I am an uptight moron. But at least I am a pro-feminist uptight moron, I guess.

Ben, as a pro-feminist person do you support the ban on small breasted women in the name of combating paedophiles?

No, I don’t. It’s oppressive.

This is the most unintentionally funniest comment thread I’ve read in a while.

You can have my Kitty Yung videos when you take them from my cold, dead hands.

As a gay guy I have to say I think it’s a good start, but it doesn’t go quite far enough.

Hopefully they expand the law to include all cup sizes, soon.

I find this completely acceptable. This is not affecting women’s personal or private lives, unless they were an A cup who somehow got hired to do porn in the first place. How many A cups do you see in porn?

I don’t care who an A cup dates or has sex with, and it’s not that I personally don’t want to look at it or have an aversion to small breasts. In fact, I really enjoy looking at Paris Hilton. However, it is true that some women due to whatever levels of whatever hormones, look like boys, or look like they are 12. It would then hold that if those women with not-narrow waists and not-large breasts engaging in porn would be a little creepy, especially if they are short and, say, their hair was thrown into pigtails.

There’s nothing wrong with porn, or with an A cup getting laid, but a recording of an A cup getting laid falling into the hands of a pedophile right before his penis falls into the same place- I’m sure the A cup wouldn’t stand up for that right, either.