{"id":700,"date":"2008-06-06T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=700"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:35:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:35:25","slug":"australia-decides-that-15-year-olds-may-look-at-other-15-year-olds-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/06\/australia-decides-that-15-year-olds-may-look-at-other-15-year-olds-after-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Australia decides that 15 year olds may look at other 15 year olds after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As was to be expected, I&#8217;ve been too preoccupied to update anything since arriving in Melbourne for the show (<a href=\"http:\/\/schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au\/PSSR\/exhibitions\/2008\/redrawing.html\">plug!<\/a>); but now I&#8217;m sitting next to a guy looking up Lesbian Upskirt Spanking Parties on YouTube in the back of an IGA in Swanston Street which doesn&#8217;t seem to bother charging anyone using the computers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also to be expected, a host of pundits have crawled out of the woodwork to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/opinion\/time-the-best-got-brighter-in-defence-of-henson-20080531-2k7z.html\">miss the point completely<\/a> about that whole <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/05\/i-dont-know-what-that-means-but-i-think.html\">Bill Henson tizzy<\/a>.  Their main point of <a title=\"Fortuitous typo.\">arfument<\/a>: yes, we know he&#8217;s a child pornographer, but how much porn is too much?  Pity they all forgot to think about whether or not Henson&#8217;s photographs were pornographic in the first place.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/henson-porn-prosecution-unlikely-20080605-2mbs.html\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/henson-porn-prosecution-unlikely-20080605-2mbs.html\">The Classifications Board<\/a> has now declared the picture &#8220;mild&#8221; and safe for many children&#8230;. Considered one of the most confronting in the Henson exhibition, the picture came to the board for classification when it was discovered in a blog discussing pornography and the sexualisation of children. But the classifiers found the &#8220;image of breast nudity \u2026 creates a viewing impact that is mild and justified by context \u2026 and is not sexualised to any degree.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As was to be expected, I&#8217;ve been too preoccupied to update anything since arriving in Melbourne for the show (plug!); but now I&#8217;m sitting next to a guy looking up Lesbian Upskirt Spanking Parties on YouTube in the back of an IGA in Swanston Street which doesn&#8217;t seem to bother charging anyone using the computers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}