Sydney erotic novel author charged after outrage over ‘child abuse material’ in book

[mrlolicon93]

A woman in Australia has been charged with producing child sexual abuse material over her novel about the relationship of a young woman with her father’s friend.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 20934.html

[Fragment]

She's been jailed for writing about a situation that would be legal if it actually occurred.

[Jim Burton]

This is one of these prosecutions it will look better for the state to lose while trying, than not to try at all.

[WavesInEternity]

What makes me sick is knowing about the arrest and lawsuit, not that the book exists... I am reminded of this thread about DDLG/LB and what I wrote there.

Also, Australia is a puritanical hellhole when it comes to sexuality in general.

[Aspire6]

She's been jailed for writing about a situation that would be legal if it actually occurred.

I saw a post about this on Reddit in the Australia subreddit, all the comments were entirely in pure disgust over the book. There were a few pro-fiction comments that were downvoted to hell, as expected.

My opinion about this case is all the charges should be dropped and instead turned right back at the government. Their laws are absurd and do nothing to "protect the children", only fuel the hysteria that they've falsely generated for free political points. They waste both money and time going after these harmless things, instead of focusing on saving actual children from situations of abuse/harm. That, in my eyes, makes them a huge disappointment and laughing stock of the world.

And yes, that is coming me, a pedophile.

[Jim Burton]

If governments like playing that game to keep the public on side with their surveillance plans, we should keep on insisting that our people and organisations are kept front and center of their bogeyman efforts. Even when they don't want us to be seen as a canary for freedom of expression (for instance because they are on the verge of triggering mass civil disobedience), we should make ourselves relevant and remind them.

[BLueRibbon]

She's been jailed for writing about a situation that would be legal if it actually occurred.

But she didn't condemn the older male character for his unapproved thoughts. That is the main problem.

The MAP was also portrayed not as a violent rapist. Another problem. How are Australians going to feel better about themselves without a sadistic pedo to beat down?

[WavesInEternity]

But she didn't condemn the older male character for his unapproved thoughts. That is the main problem.

She didn't condemn the imaginary older male for his imaginary unapproved thoughts. How terrible! Won't somebody think of the imaginary children?

As far as this issue is concerned, in the UK and Australia, we're already in full-blown Nineteen-eighty-four...

[mrlolicon93]

She's been jailed for writing about a situation that would be legal if it actually occurred.

I saw a post about this on Reddit in the Australia subreddit, all the comments were entirely in pure disgust over the book. There were a few pro-fiction comments that were downvoted to hell, as expected.

My opinion about this case is all the charges should be dropped and instead turned right back at the government. Their laws are absurd and do nothing to "protect the children", only fuel the hysteria that they've falsely generated for free political points. They waste both money and time going after these harmless things, instead of focusing on saving actual children from situations of abuse/harm. That, in my eyes, makes them a huge disappointment and laughing stock of the world.

And yes, that is coming me, a pedophile.

Just look at how Australia treats anime manga and Japanese novels many popular series are illegal to own over there because they depict underage characters in a sexual way from what i have heard you can not get the No Game No Life novels in Australia because they are illegal to own over there.

I could be wrong so don't quote me on that but that is what i have heard also, check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cd7A0UqmE

If we are gonna ban fiction where minors are sexualized and shown as consenting or willing or ban anything that may be somewhat pedophilic and not outright morally preachy about how we need to PRoTect Le Childeran then why not ban Lolita? why not ban Lamb by Bonnie Nadzam? why not ban ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that has child/teen and child/adult sexuality in it including the bible?

This is all just so fucking stupid.

[WavesInEternity]

Just look at how Australia treats anime manga and Japanese novels many popular series are illegal to own over there because they depict underage characters in a sexual way from what i have heard you can not get the No Game No Life novels in Australia because they are illegal to own over there.

You are correct. Of all major Western countries, Australia is probably the most repressive in that respect.

~ 7 manga series removed from a store in Sydney (Eromanga Sensei, Sword Art Online; Goblin Slayer; No Game, No Life; Inside Mari; Parallel Paradise; Dragonar Academy): https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2 ... nt/.162070
~ Another news report on the above case: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/manga- ... iya-anime/
~ On No Game, No Life being banned specifically: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/no-gam ... australia/
~ Multiple volumes of To Love Ru Darkness are banned: https://animehunch.com/multiple-volumes ... australia/
~ Most recently, How Not To Summon A Demon Lord Omega was banned: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/banned ... emon-lord/

(As a side note, Saint Petersburg in Russia banned No Game, No Life for supposed "child pornography" too.)

Those are just some of the most "mainstream" titles that were altogether refused classification, but back in 2020, a senator wanted all anime & manga to be "reviewed" for potential breaches of the law due to the presence of "obscene content": https://archive.junkee.com/japanese-chi ... lia/244075

And some news reports state that the law is so broad that all "hentai" (i.e. erotic anime & manga) is effectively banned.

That's the same country that banned all real-life pornography featuring excessively "youthful-looking performers in youthful scenarios" (even if everyone involved is over 18): https://www.salon.com/2010/02/02/australian_porn_ban/

It's worth noting that it also has ridiculously restrictive standards with respect to video game classification, with many mainstream titles being banned from formal sale in the country for three main reasons: "sexual activity involving a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 years" (even "implied"), "sexual violence" (again, even "implied"), and "drug use related to incentives and rewards".

In the recent past, mass civil disobedience was pivotal in the fight against book censorship:

In the 1960s, censorship laws came under pressure when "three intrepid Sydney activists," Alexander William Sheppard, Leon Fink and Ken Buckley, locally published D. H. Lawrence's The Trial of Lady Chatterley (Sydney, 1965), which was at that time banned in Australia, and Sheppard then published James Baldwin's Another Country (1966). In 1970, Penguin Books had three copies of Portnoy's Complaint smuggled into Australia and then secretly printed 75,000 copies of the book. In the early 1970s Don Chipp, the federal Minister of Customs and Excise, largely ended censorship of printed material in the country, with Australians being able to read such books as Portnoy’s Complaint and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.

It is my view that the same should be done with anime & manga. The fandom must rise to the defense of all banned titles, "erotic" or not.