The ban (RC) on small breasted women in adult publications has been made by the Australian Classification Board allegedly on the grounds that such images could be construed as child pornography, even where those publications comply with American law and keep certification that performers are over 18.
Female ejaculation has been banned on the incredible grounds that “the depictions are a form of urination which is banned under the label of ‘golden showers’ in the Classification Guidelines” and/or “Female ejaculation is an ‘abhorrent’ depiction.” Notably here male ejaculation is completely legal under the same guidelines, attracting an X rating in Australia. (emphasis added)
I know what some of you are thinking: "So what? Porn is derogatory towards women." I'm not disagreeing with that statement, I think it can be derogatory towards women. And honestly, when this person first sent me the article, I thought in my head "Why are you even sending me this article?" However, after thinking about it some, I saw some gender issues in these new bans.
Although the country claims that they are banning small breasts because of child pornography (which would be an acceptable reason for me), coupled with the ban of female ejaculation, these bans suggest a deeper issue here: gender. It seems as if the Australian government is afraid of women being too much like men. Both women with small breasts and women who ejaculate could be a threat to the gender dichotomy which exists in some countries. This dichotomy basically means that females are the opposite of males (and, obviously, vice versa). Therefore, if males do not have breasts and do ejaculate, women must have big breasts and must not ejaculate. Coupled in this way, this new law shows that Australia might not be afraid of child porn and urination after all, instead, they might just be afraid of a breaking down of the gender norm system.
At the same time, this ban seems to be placing value on women with large breasts, while simultaneously devaluing the beauty of women with small breasts. I know we might think that porn doesn't matter and that it is disgusting and whatnot, but it can still be used to reinforce the ideals of the society. These ideals are obviously feminine women and masculine men, and has no room in between for anyone who might do a bit of border crossing. This is not to suggest that Australia is against gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, and queer rights. Instead, I'm suggesting that they don't like the possibility of unintentional border crossing by the heterosexual population. They don't want their men who are looking at women to accidentally get turned on by a woman who looks more like a man or acts like a man. This would be a regressive moment for them.
Lastly, I just want to suggest that while the United States does not have these bans, it does have a gender system put into place which is just as dichotomous, if not more so, than Australia's.
i first found their reasoning for the bans as understandable, but then i got to thinking that it really doesn't make any sense what-so-ever, i both like and agree with your theory as to why they are doing it, they just can't deal with the "less-feminine" looking women in their porn
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