{"id":687,"date":"2010-01-10T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2010-01-10T13:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:28:39","slug":"here-we-go-again-art-vs-porn-in-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again&#8230; art vs porn in NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/members.optusnet.com.au\/weezil0\/henspostcard.jpg\" alt=\"Not porn, get over it\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most read items on mgk, by a huge margin, have to do with photographer Bill Henson and his nude and seminude male and female adolescent subjects:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a class=\"title\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Permanent Link: Censorship, self-censorship and the chilling effect\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/?p=499\">Censorship, self-censorship and the chilling effect<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a class=\"title\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Permanent Link: Paedophilic pornography paranoia\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"..\/?p=494\">Paedophilic pornography paranoia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merits mention that no Henson image has ever received an ACMA rating more restrictive than PG, <em>including <\/em>the one illustrating this post. Why? Because simple nudity isn&#8217;t pornography. If it were, there&#8217;d be a lot of stained glass featuring nude cherubs being seized from churches. For an image to be pornographic under Australian law, there must be sexualisation. Simple nudity just doesn&#8217;t get there.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-porn wowsers have been stamping around in impotent rage ever since the ill-informed raid on the Roslyn Oxley9 art gallery resulted in red-faced NSW Police sheepishly having to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/lateline\/content\/2007\/s2267859.htm\">drop plans to charge Henson<\/a> and the gallery and return the Henson works they seized.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do the self-appointed censors do? Lobby to have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/10\/2788942.htm\">law changed<\/a> to suit them, against all reasonable community standards&#8230; as if that will magically make Henson&#8217;s images pornographic.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most read items on mgk, by a huge margin, have to do with photographer Bill Henson and his nude and seminude male and female adolescent subjects: Censorship, self-censorship and the chilling effect Paedophilic pornography paranoia Merits mention that no Henson image has ever received an ACMA rating more restrictive than PG, including the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}