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October 2nd, 2013, 06:55 PM | #1 |
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Vintage Pornography cons and hurdles
The mid to late seventies were, undoubtedly, the 'golden age' of porn but in the UK, 'hard core' porn was still illegal. There were many scammers that took advantage of the fact that demand for hard core porn was high and many punters (including myself) were frequently ripped-off when believing they were getting the real thing. The scammers knew that no one would dare to complain and, if they did, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
Here are one or two cons I fell for: The cover of the mag was hard but the pages inside were censored with black disks covering the explicit bits. As it was shrinkwrapped, you didn't find this out until you got home from your trip to Soho. The cover was censored but you were led to believe the shrinkwrapped mag was uncensored inside 'cos it said so on the cover - it wasn't. Sending off for supposedly hard core porn by mail order but when it arrived it was either censored or not explicit (if it arrived at all). I can also remember, in the late nineties when I first had the internet but before the porn laws were relaxed, I sent off for two hard core mags from Europe. A couple of weeks later I received a letter from HM Customs at Dover informing me that my package had been opened and my magazines confiscated and destroyed and that I could either accept this and it would be left as it is or, if I challenged it, I would face a charge of smuggling indecent material. Obviously, I let it go. The things we suffer for a decent bit of smut. |
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October 2nd, 2013, 07:04 PM | #2 |
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One of the many ways in which we are separated by a common language has to do with the idea of free speech. In the United States we argue about this stuff a lot, but virtually all Americans would agree that by our standards Britain is a terribly repressive society. In particular, your libel laws are incomprehensible to us. On the other hand, as I understand it, if the official censor passes a written work, no suit can be brought. Weird.
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