Post by admin on Aug 26, 2007 2:36:26 GMT -5
Magazines and books sold in licensed sex shops are legal unless they contain the acts prohibited in videos. This is because the Crown Prosecution Service and Customs follow the standards set by the British Board of Film Claassification. Unlicensed premeses eg bookshops and newsagents self-censor.
r as they wish to avoid the risk having all their stock seized.
The written word is now not prosecuted, but also may be self-censored by publishers and distributors. There are no definitions of what may and may not be described or shown lawfully in Britain. Swapping amateur porn is classed as trading, under the Video Recordings Act and therefore theoretically the material requires a licence from the British Board of Film Classification, which costs around �1,000 per film and the films should strictly speaking be traded through a licensed sex shop . If you are selling to the public in a sex shop, you need a sex shop licence.
For an erotic show at an exhibition centre, you need an Entertainment licence from the Council, to which conditions will be attached, eg no complete nudity. Either may cost as much as �20,000 a year. Occasional licences for a one-off event costs less.
Newsagents have adopted a "top shelf" system to stop housewives complaining about porn when searching for Women's Realm, and stop children, people in wheelchairs and people of small stature being able to reach the porn! In any event, such porn cannot be too explicit, ie "hard" as this can only be sold in a licensed sex shop. It must constitute less than ten percent of the total publictions on sale in the shop. People must be over 18 in order to purchase both soft and hard porn. The City of Westminster Act rigorously suppresses unlicensed sex shops.
Galleries and art centres displaying erotic High Art and Low Art are normally not prosecuted, even for hard-core material, unless they contain indecent images of children under 18, or even innocently naked children. Erotic art does get be seized by customs, which sometimes means it cannot appear in the show it was being sent over for.
It also remains an offense to send indecent items through the mail (Post Office Act). Hard-core porno cannot be sold to the public by mail order. It can only be purchased in a licensed sex shop over the counter (Video Recordings Act).
r as they wish to avoid the risk having all their stock seized.
The written word is now not prosecuted, but also may be self-censored by publishers and distributors. There are no definitions of what may and may not be described or shown lawfully in Britain. Swapping amateur porn is classed as trading, under the Video Recordings Act and therefore theoretically the material requires a licence from the British Board of Film Classification, which costs around �1,000 per film and the films should strictly speaking be traded through a licensed sex shop . If you are selling to the public in a sex shop, you need a sex shop licence.
For an erotic show at an exhibition centre, you need an Entertainment licence from the Council, to which conditions will be attached, eg no complete nudity. Either may cost as much as �20,000 a year. Occasional licences for a one-off event costs less.
Newsagents have adopted a "top shelf" system to stop housewives complaining about porn when searching for Women's Realm, and stop children, people in wheelchairs and people of small stature being able to reach the porn! In any event, such porn cannot be too explicit, ie "hard" as this can only be sold in a licensed sex shop. It must constitute less than ten percent of the total publictions on sale in the shop. People must be over 18 in order to purchase both soft and hard porn. The City of Westminster Act rigorously suppresses unlicensed sex shops.
Galleries and art centres displaying erotic High Art and Low Art are normally not prosecuted, even for hard-core material, unless they contain indecent images of children under 18, or even innocently naked children. Erotic art does get be seized by customs, which sometimes means it cannot appear in the show it was being sent over for.
It also remains an offense to send indecent items through the mail (Post Office Act). Hard-core porno cannot be sold to the public by mail order. It can only be purchased in a licensed sex shop over the counter (Video Recordings Act).