Under a new Australian law, visitors Down Under must declare any “illegal” pornography to border officials. As AOL News accounts, one Aussie couple returning home from their honeymoon had been asked to uncover “anything racy” to customs. The couple had been thus compelled to share their nude honeymoon photos and be thoroughly humiliated in the process by the invasion of privacy.
An iPhone containing nude honeymoon pictures
The young pair did not plan on breaking the law as they were newlyweds. Nevertheless, airport authorities wanted the new anti-porn ordinance in Australia to be enforced. Nobody really knows much about the regulation. There aren’t specifics about things like this. Airport arrival cards are reworded due to the confusion, as it had been later made clear that the intent of the law had been not to invade upon the privacy of legal, consenting newlyweds. AOL News the “illegal” pornography had been declared as, “child pornography, bestiality, explicit sexual violence, degradation, cruelty and rape.”. Illegal pornography can lead to fines and possible imprisonment.
“(The couple was) on the beach, they were nude, they’d taken a photo of themselves on their iPhone having an embrace,” based from a spokeswoman, Robbie Swan. She was speaking for the political party, the Australian Sex Party. “It was not full on or anything, but when they’d gone via customs they’d asked what ‘pornography’ meant and also the customs officer had said: ‘Well, anything explicit’.”
Complaints on anti-porn go to the Sex Party
The anti-pornography regulation, introduced at the end of 2009, has caused Australian citizens to complain a ton to the Australian Sex Party, which is a libertarian political party and lobbyist group. The “if in doubt, show it” mentality has understandably been construed as an invasion of privacy. The illegal pornographic material ought to be caught through the new regulation, claims Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor. The Intercourse Party is still pretty angry about it.
“It is an incredible breach of people’s privacy,” Sex Party leader Fiona Patten said “If the objective is to stop child pornography, then this is not going to achieve this.”
Citations
AOL News
aolnews.com/weird-news/article/australian-border-officials-check-honeymooners-for-porn/19681747
SexPart.org
sexparty.org.au/
Australian Sex Party Federal Election ad (Note: May be inappropriate for children)
youtube.com/watch?v=tdEVVW_ahnE
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