Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers

Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and declare all porn that they think might be illegal with customs officers. From the article: "The government said it changed the wording on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of confusion among travellers about what pornography to declare. 'People have a right to privacy and while some pornography is legal and does not need to be disclosed, all travellers should be aware that certain types of pornography are illegal and must be declared to customs,' Mr O'Connor said."

Comments

What????

[gagol]

Next thing, they will want you to declare the illegal drugs you carry...

Re:What????

[zill]

No, you have to decleare all the drugs you carry.

After sampling each one, their customs officer will tell you which ones are illegal.

Re:What????

[MichaelSmith]

After sampling each one, their customs officer will tell you which ones are illegal.

They are welcome to my epilepsy medication but I don't think they will enjoy not being able to stand up for the next twelve hours.

Yes office,

[BRSloth]

"I have some bestiality on my computer, but you can see clearly that the girl is ENJOYING IT!"

Re:Yes office,

[Sponge Bath]

He has to declare his illegal porn as well.

Re:Yes office,

[hoggoth]

> The girl is moot, she's being paid for it, she doesn't have to enjoy it. But think of the dog!

Girls, dogs, sex, porn...

and now you've dragged Moot into this. I've got a bad feeling about this!

Re:Yes office,

[BlueParrot]

You know what. I personally think it does say a lot by our society that it's acceptable to slaughter adolescent animals simply because we think they taste well, but if you let one of them lick your naked body it's somehow animal abuse even if the creature in question suffers no ill effects.

Damn will my karma burn for saying this, but while people like to pretend zoophilia is bad because it hurts animals, the real reason it's considered unacceptable is because we have freaking problem with sex. Food does not cause the same reaction, and thus few people care that we are raising animals with the intent to kill and eat them.

Similar complete failure of logic is seen in the anti stem-cells crowd, many of which will happily eat eggs, bacon or chicken, while at the same time declaring IVF and embryonic stem cell research as unacceptable attacks on the sanctity of life.

Now go on, try to justify it. All the usual arguments basically boil down to "it's ok to kill animals because they taste nice", which does make it seem rather hollow when the same people condem zoophilia.

As it happens, I'm not actually a zoophiliac. Merely a vegan who finds it a bit twisted that we seem to consider it worse to let an animal have sex with you than it would be to kill it.

Re:Yes office,

[Hylandr]

Animals can bite, and Animals can kick - Don't tell me they can't say no...

- Dan.

Re:Yes office,

[TubeSteak]

Damn will my karma burn for saying this, but while people like to pretend zoophilia is bad because it hurts animals, the real reason it's considered unacceptable is because we have freaking problem with sex.

We don't let adults have sex with minors.
All the same reasons apply to sex with animals.

It's not so much about harm as it is about consent.

Re:Yes office,

[Applekid]

I remember seeing a sex therapist talk about how he was invited to discuss beastiality on a talk show of some kind, and there was a guest who had "married his horse." One of the points the guest tried to explain is that, if a horse didn't consent, you'd be dead.

(Perhaps more interestingly, the punchline of his story was that he asked the guest if it was a female horse, and the male guest was extremely offended at the suggestion that he might have been gay.)

Re:Yes office,

[BlueParrot]

Then why is it ok to kill and eat them? Are you saying they can consent to having their lives ended in adolescence? Can a hen consent to living its life on an area less than that of an A4 paper ?

It's hypocrisy no matter how you try and twist and turn it.

Re:Yes office,

[aix tom]

>Ever seen a frog and a pig getting it on? No, because that would be disturbing

Welllllllllll...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVE60zwXx1k

Re:Yes office,

[GodfatherofSoul]

I don't know about you, but I don't want to eat any adolescent animals that have been running around licking people's privates.

Re:Yes office,

[smellsofbikes]

The therapist you saw speak was Dan Savage, who writes the sex advice column Savage Love. He's fond of telling that story when people ask him what's the weirdest question he's ever been asked. Savage is largely known for popularizing a sexually offensive neologism, 'santorum' (I'll let you look it up) to the point that it's now the first hit on google, rather than the target of the satire, ex-senator and likely 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Savage's current big publicity project is the It Gets Better Project, trying to encourage gay teenagers to not kill themselves because of abuse; it's been getting a fair amount of news attention in the last month.

Re:Yes office,

[IndustrialComplex]

As it happens, I'm not actually a zoophiliac. Merely a vegan who finds it a bit twisted that we seem to consider it worse to let an animal have sex with you than it would be to kill it.

No, you are pretty much correct. I'm no vegan (far from it) but I think you are spot on correct. The whole concept is just our fear of anything relating to sex.

Think of it this way:

Carefully touch a bull's testicles and derive some pleasure from it: People will flip out at what a horrible crime it is.

Take a sharp knife, slice open the scrotum, remove the testicles, bread them and saute them and call them rocky mountain oysters and eat them. People will give you money for them.

Re:Yes office,

[shutdown -p now]

I think GP's point is that we don't routinely butcher 14 year olds. Though the idea is intriguing.

Re:Yes office,

[psithurism]

Because they're animals. You can kill them, but you aren't allowed to torture them.

Well, in the context of what we are discussing: We are allowed to have dogs chase them down tear them up in an already unfair fight before we come in and shoot them until they are too wounded to keep running from us, then knife them to death, video tape the whole thing including the after death humiliation of skinning and impromptu sports games with non-tasty body parts. It's fine to show these videos to your kids, actually your kids were probably there to see daddy being a man. However, if these animals were to enjoy some peanut butter off your nuts, not ok: torture.

That's Australia for you.

[synthil]

Too much fucking censorship here.

Re:That's Australia for you.

[Dunbal]

Amazing, considering Australia was founded by thieves, murderers and whores.

Re:That's Australia for you.

[wootest]

It's worse than that; I believe they were British.

Glad to comply

[hansamurai]

Is there some kind of catalog or web site I can browse to see examples of what's legal and not?

As well as declaring all...

[Dahamma]

...recent murders committed, houses burgled, cars stolen, heiresses kidnapped, parking tickets ignored, and Australian ministers ridiculed.

Re:As well as declaring all...

[medcalf]

Oh, I didn't realize a criminal record was still required before going to Australia.

Re:As well as declaring all...

[TapeCutter]

"Oh, I didn't realize a criminal record was still required before going to Australia."

No worries mate, if you don't have a criminal record one of our customs officers will give you one at the border.

I foresee great conversations at the customs booth

[Anonymous Coward]

Passenger: So, I read that I have to declare illegal pornography.
Officer: Yes, indeed.
Passenger: Well, I do have something on my laptop, but I don't know whether it's illegal. Would you mind having a look and telling me what you think about it?

something like this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Aussie Customs officer: Do you have any illegal porn?
British tourist: I did not know you still need do illegal things to get in here!

Re:Expectation of privacy

[gfreeman]

Not a valid defence in England

Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask

[paeanblack]

who travels with porn?

Customs officers that collect images from their backscatter X-ray machines

Re:Someone isn't very smart

[Abstrackt]

I think the person creating the application form was actually quite clever as two positive (for the company) things happen this way: 1) it weeds out the idiots who admit to taking illicit drugs with some regularity and 2) it makes it much easier to fire someone for lying on their application if the employer finds out they are on illicit drugs.

As for customs, when you enter the US there is a section that literally asks if you're a spy. I hope they're not catching too many idiots that way but it does create a situation where someone who is a spy can be convicted for lying to the government. I figure the same idea applies to declaring illegal porn.

is tub girl illegal?

[TiggertheMad]

Makes me want to load up a laptop full of shock-pr0n images, just to I can show them all to some unfortunate customs worker, under the guise of 'declaring' them...

Hope the customs workers have therapy coverage on their health care plans....

Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask

[SmackTheIgnorant]

Who doesn't? C'mon, you're on a flight, several hours long, how can one POSSIBLY go that long without their dose girl-on-goat action??

I like the cut of your jib

[Weaselmancer]

Yes...it's a good idea. Much fun. But if you really want to creep the guy out - go mental with it.

Tell the customs worker that you have a lot of porn on your laptop and you'd like to declare it. Then show him hundreds of pictures of feet. Just feet. Nothing else. And while he pages through them to determine their legality, act like you are fighting becoming aroused. Moan. Drool a little bit.

For bonus points make it something really odd. Bell towers or Volkswagen bugs or cigar smoking women cutting into birthday cakes.

Remember kids - what's porn for one person may not necessarily be porn for another.

Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask

[The Wild Norseman]

That type of porn can come back to haunt you when your wife of 3 years find shit you downloaded back in high school. Lucky for me my wife found it amusing and currently jokes the hell out of me.

Lucky for you, your wife found it amusing and doesn't know how to check time/date stamps on files downloaded "back in high school."

Don't worry, your secret is safe with us.

Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask

[ElectricTurtle]

My wife of three years jokes about the pr0n I downloaded last night. But then I give her crap for the pr0n she downloads too, so it all evens out.

Hint to all those married or thinking about it: if your significant other can't come to grips with the fact that one other person cannot embody the totality of somebody's sexuality, you have settled and in the process are doomed to denying part(s) of your true self for the duration of your relationship. I love my wife as deeply as I do in no small part because she doesn't use "morality" as a cover to be an irrational, paranoid, hyper-jealous ass like so many people do.

Re:ok, i'll be dumb enough to ask

[Red Flayer]

Who among us (people on /. that is) does not IMMEDIATELY search for all images when someone we know asks us to repair their computer?

Those of us who respect the privacy of our friends/acquaintances?

Seriously, what kind of asshole are you that you'd dig through someone's personal files without asking their consent?

Hell, I may be *curious* about what images/vids they have... but to actually go through with it and snoop on them? What a dick you must be.

Re:Just mail it to yourself before you board

[ceoyoyo]

You know customs goes through international mail right?