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

[Quentin Campbell]

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From: Peter Gutmann [mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz]=20
Sent: 26 April 2002 14:41
To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
Subject: Re: R v (1) GRAHAM WESTGARTH SMITH (2) MIKE JAYSON (2002)


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=20
>PG> about 10 years, specifically during the time interval covering when

>PG> porn (of any kind) was made legal and when specific types of porn=20
>PG> were made illegal.
>
>Excuse me, but where in Europe was this supposed to have happened? and=20
>what sort of porn is supposed to have been involved? I actually lived=20
>in Sweden, as a child, in the late Sixties, when the news kiosks in=20
>Stockholm had eye-level cunts in their displays, (using my then eye=20
>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=20
...

Australians like to think that New Zealand is rather behind the times
but in NSW it was still illegal to advertise contraception as late as
1969 or 1970. I recall that during that period, "Tharunka", the student
newspaper of the University of NSW ran an advert for a contraceptive aid
(it was a pessary) and our offices were raided by the Vice Squad as a
result.

Quentin