Regulation sex

The law and porn don’t mix well. It’s legal. As far as I’m aware it’s always been legal to make porn it was just illegal to sell it until around 1998 when films classified as a restricted 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (the BBFC) were allowed to be sold only in licensed sex shops. The same is true of law today. Fortunately that law was passed before the major onset of the internet so you can get all the porn you like unclassified and uncensored on line.

Ask the police or the government what the law is for pornography and chances are they will have to find you someone who knows – they won’t!

A simple rule to follow when making porn is this. Rape is illegal – so don’t film it (faked or otherwise), sex with minors is illegal – so don’t film it (faked or otherwise). The same rule applies to anything illegal. Guns, drugs, public indecency, the lot. Some producers have much trouble getting their heads round this condition of sale. It’s simple really. Just common sense.

For some reason it’s ok to include this stuff in a Hollywood block buster, because we all know it’s made up, but in porn the BBFC won’t allow anything “illegal” even though porn is most probably the most farfetched and fantastical genre of all films. Maybe these people in authority believe, and possibly rightly so, that once we reach a state of arousal we can’t differentiate between fact and fiction. If not then it’s just a blatant prejudice to makers and watchers of porn.

Ner ner ner ner ner you have fun filming sex all day but we are going to cap your fun by not allowing you to express yourselves creatively above just having sex. That’s it, all you can do is fuck and you can’t have anything else!