(sorry for the duplicate, I'm still getting the hang of this livejournal thing!
A little background. My leatherMom's Girlfriend. (Let's just call her "M") M got a job at an adult video store. Recently, being new, she was taken aside by the assistant manager, and told in no uncertain terms that if anyone came up looking for videos including:
Sex with midgets (her term) Women on their period A White woman having sex with multiple Black men or Female Ejaculation
She was to tell them that a recent mandate from the "blah blah something blah" had dictated that such topics in pornography had been deemed oficcially "obscene" (along with long lost favourites like penetration during bondage, etc) And they now could no longer rent, or sell such materials. This supposedly had come down through official channels.
Unfortunately, the jury is still out, and I certainly didn't have enough information to verify it using another source...
Fact: In browsing the video selection AT said porn shop. (Castle Superstore, BTW) I was rather intrigued to be able to find well over a dozen films available for rent on those subjects (nearly a dozen on the midgets topic, actually!)
So.. the question becomes, did a wry attempt at hazing/testing the new employee fail miserably and start an erroneous rumour (passed on unknowingly by me)... or is the video store owner being remiss in their duties to national censorship laws by not pulling the titles in question?
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The Jury's Still out
Date: 3 Apr 2003 19:20 (UTC)A little background. My leatherMom's Girlfriend. (Let's just call her "M") M got a job at an adult video store. Recently, being new, she was taken aside by the assistant manager, and told in no uncertain terms that if anyone came up looking for videos including:
Sex with midgets (her term)
Women on their period
A White woman having sex with multiple Black men
or
Female Ejaculation
She was to tell them that a recent mandate from the "blah blah something blah" had dictated that such topics in pornography had been deemed oficcially "obscene" (along with long lost favourites like penetration during bondage, etc) And they now could no longer rent, or sell such materials. This supposedly had come down through official channels.
Unfortunately, the jury is still out, and I certainly didn't have enough information to verify it using another source...
Fact: In browsing the video selection AT said porn shop. (Castle Superstore, BTW) I was rather intrigued to be able to find well over a dozen films available for rent on those subjects (nearly a dozen on the midgets topic, actually!)
So.. the question becomes, did a wry attempt at hazing/testing the new employee fail miserably and start an erroneous rumour (passed on unknowingly by me)... or is the video store owner being remiss in their duties to national censorship laws by not pulling the titles in question?
The jury's still out.
(sorry)