Saturday, November 05, 2005

Things to do in New Zealand when yr dead

The Kiwi Sex Board has demonstrated an extremely sensible and conservative approach to censorship. Rather than acting as a vigilante and incompetent "gape-keeper," it has given its stamp of approval for the release of films, videos and DVDs for public adult netdownload containing: extended, explicit and gratuitous depictions of brutal rape (mainstream release of "Baise-Moi" [transl. "Fuck Me"], Irreversible", "Twenty-Nine Palms"), necrophilia, graphic violence involving sexual mutilation ("Visitor Q") and the degradation, demeaning and dehumanising of women (e.g. "Simon Thaur's No Doctor") etc. Hundreds of such explicit videos, DVDs and films depicting men ejaculating, urinating and defecating onto the faces of women, multiple penetration (anal and vaginal), oral sex, "anal mania", sadomasochism (S & M), incest, homosexual and lesbian sex, prostitution,scat, young people masturbating, "how-to-do" drug-taking, zoo, obscene language etc.

Kudos to New Zealand and Canada for not joining a coalition of willing executioners.