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Gibson H R <c9416574@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> wrote in
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> Rod Speed (rodspeed@ozemail.com.au) wrote:

>>> Ok - but what if I am on a mailing list that swaps erotic fiction?

>> You can actually make a case that that was illegal before
>> the most recent legislation in some circumstances.

> illegal under what grounds?

The legislation that made child porn a complete no no managed to include
that erotic fiction. Clearly if its just erotic fiction about adults its fine.

> And if so, why so.

Wowsers have massive hangups. Think its supposed
to be due to poor toilet training or something |-)

> if I write thehnn snail mail letters to a group of
> peopling ona mail list will this also be censored?

Not censored if it falls foul of the Crimes Act, much more
dramatic stuff like search and seizure and prosecution.

> I guess it comes down to whether sending
> mail to someone (or a group) is publishing.

Nope, not as far as the Crimes Act is concerned.

>>> Is it really any of the governments business? Why
>>> shouldn't I be able to swap fiction with like minded persons?

>> You clearly cant if its child porn for example. Even if
>> you just swap stuff that you didnt produce yourself.

> Do you mean child porn images (which required violation of someones rights)

That's distinctly arguable with passing around images that you've come across.

> or ficticious works?

Both, due to the way that legislation was written.
Its distinctly arguable how much sense that makes.

Corse being fiction was never a valid protection against
the previous much more draconian law on pornography etc.

>  I write a story exploring teenage sexuality is that 'child porn' ?

Well, teenage gets complicated bt certainly fiction covering child
molesting by an adult certainly is. Specially if its salivating over that.

> (under current definitions it could eb if causing offence to a reasonable adult)
> What about if I write a 'rape' story, or just repost a short 'rape scene'?

Gets surprisingly complicated.

As it did with that Lolita film for example. Some claimed that it was endorsing
child molesting and a 'sympathic' look at what was after all a child molester.

>> No point in going into hysterics about the ABA and the most recent classification
>> legislation any time soon. I bet it turns out to be nothing like as bad as the wilder
>> claims made at the time that classification of computer games was introduced.

> I thnk the classification of games is bad as I still believe that there
> should exist a category for adult games. The onyl thing that makes the
> game classificaytion and banning scheme less ba dis the number of
> patches you can download to get the full adult version of certain games.

Sure and the whole thing has always suffered from the very
fundamental lunacy that its fine to have people killing each
other depicted, but not to depict them rooting. Barking mad.