R v (1) GRAHAM WESTGARTH SMITH (2) MIKE JAYSON (2002)

[Peter Gutmann]

Andrew Brown <alloneword@dial.pipex.com> writes:

>On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 1:00:25 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>PG> It's been done in Europe, on a very large scale, over a period of about 10
>PG> years, specifically during the time interval covering when porn (of any kind)
>PG> was made legal and when specific types of porn were made illegal.
>
>Excuse me, but where in Europe was this supposed to have happened? and what
>sort of porn is supposed to have been involved? I actually lived in Sweden, as
>a child, in the late Sixties, when the news kiosks in Stockholm had eye-level
>cunts in their displays, (using my then eye level as a benchmark). But even
>then child pornography was illegal, and in Denmark too.

Porn was decriminalised (or not-criminalised, depending on your point of view)
in the late 60's/early 70's (it's somewhat more complex than that in that the
genre evolved as time went on, people's perceptions of what was and wasn't
right or wrong changed over time (and that's been going on for a long time, eg
material containing information on contraception used to be illegal in NZ in
the 1920s and 1930s), and technically it really went from being a grey area to
being black-and-white).  One of the effects of this was that child porn was
made legal in many countries as part of the general decriminalisation/de-grey-
areaisation, finally being criminalised in the 1980s (the last to do it was the
Netherlands in 1982 or 1984).  Contrary to your belief, it *was* legal in
Denmark until the early '80s.  I stopped reading alt.censorship a few years
back because of the bandwidth and because eventually it's just the same stuff
over and over again so I haven't got all the dates and whatnot at my
fingertips, however rather than engaging in wild and uninformed speculation I'd
suggest, again, that you read the newsgroup and/or archives for awhile if you
want more info.

Peter.