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The Australian Classification Board refuses classification to any film or publication that depicts a person who is a child under 18, or appears to be, in a context that may cause offense. (This may involve sexual activity but is not limited to it.)

This isn’t new information, but has gotten bloggers and social commentators into fisticuffs after news last week that the ACB was banning adult publications depicting women who appeared to be underage due to their small breasts.

Teeny titties are not the only thing causing the uproar. Female ejaculation has also gotten the ACB in the firing line.

While the Film and Games guidelines do not specifically ban publications showing female ejaculation, it does refuse classification to the fetish of ‘golden showers’. The Board are yet to respond to questions about whether they consider female ejaculation to be urination. (The Australian Sex Party claims the ACB recently refused classification to a performance depicting female ejaculation, considering it a golden shower. However, the ASP provides no further information on the scene in question.)

The British Board of Film Classification has also had problems with the classification of female ejaculation. The Board claimed, until recently, that female ejaculation does not exist. They cited a whole bunch of scientific reports that proved female ejaculation to be physiologically impossible. Performers were, they said, merely urinating (also illegal to show in the UK). They must have been a little red in the cheeks when Anna Span challenged the law, citing her own scientific proof, and had it overturned. The BBFC now recognises female ejaculation as legitimate.

The debate about female ejaculation is pretty straight forward, I think. As part of Anna Span’s appeal to the BBFC, a sample of ejaculate from the model who performed in the film was tested to prove it wasn’t urine. She also included several reports that provide evidence of women’s ability to ejaculate.

The Australian Classification Board has been quiet on this issue. I look forward to hearing what they have to say, should they desire to be transparent and accountable for Australia’s classification guidelines.

The debate on younguns in porn is murkier, to say the least.

Some argue that teen porn promotes sex with minors, rape and incest. By allowing such material to be sold, the Classification Board is ’sending a message that it’s ok to want sex with real live young girls’.

In her article, Melinda Reist takes the line that pornography develops and promotes an agenda of sexual violence. While perpetrators of sexual abuse may consume high amounts of pornography, a variety of other factors including socialisation, family, culture and psychology have a huge impact on any inclination to cause a sexual offense. These issues have way more to do with causing sexually abusive behavior than watching some people getting off in a classroom.

Part of a ‘healthy’ relationship with porn is being able to see it for what it is – a fantasy landscape in which the laws of cause and effect are non-existent. If this distinction between fantasy and reality can be made, i.e. the distinction between engaging in a sexual relationship with someone who appears to be underage on screen and actively seeking them out in ‘real life’, then pornography can be a harmless, enriching and valuable space to explore our impulses and thoughts.

I need to stress here that a lot of porn is shockingly bad (just like a lot of films are, or books or whatever), and that the way sex is used in advertising and story-telling, the way it is dumbed down day in and day out to sell some coat-hangers or radios is a really thoughtless, worthless depiction of sexuality. This kind of porn only serves as a daily reminder of our lack of imagination.

If you want to see some interesting porn, try this.