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Olympia and Hetty : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 18/7/2008

Hetty Johnston and Bravehearts are but one part of an apoplectic surge in seeing s*x in everything.

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Thanks Col. I'm delighted to be able to say that I agree with every word of your last post.

Cheers - I'll leave it at that :)
Posted by CJ Morgan, Thursday, 24 July 2008 9:20:49 PM
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"David JS where do you draw the line between sexualised images of children and child porn? Isn't that what child porn is?"

You can look at a video clip of the Pussy Cat Dolls on free-to-air television and see obviously sexualised images. A medium depicting people engaging in sexual acts is clearly pornography. In the first example, the music of these artists (I use the term broadly) is supposed to be the reason behind the production of the clip. In the second, the opportunity to view sexual acts is the selling point. That I believe to be the main difference between sexualised images and pornography (I'm talking about adults here, of course).

In terms of children, civilised society regards depictions of children engaged in sexual acts or naked and appearing sexually available as pornography and we rightly prosecute it. But when children are shown naked or semi-naked (but not sexually available) it may not be quite so straightforward. After all, babies bottoms are seen on television ads for nappies.

So it can be a dilemma but I did say that I thought Henson's exhibition inadvisable. I will also say that it can't be lumped in with pornographic videos and once the works were made public, I disagreed with the police closing it (not to mention moralising from the Prime Minister who should have kept his trap shut).
Posted by DavidJS, Thursday, 24 July 2008 10:40:01 PM
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