Even adults find it funny. Author Nina Bawden, a member of the Video Appeals Committee, said that the majority of material they watched was more likely to cause laughter than erections . There are plenty of other images, on other videos, that our moral overlords are not nearly as concerned about our children and ourselves seeing, even though they show a far less honest, and amusing, picture of sexual practices. In most mainstream Hollywood movies, sex consists of a man with no hair anywhere on his body rubbing vigorously up against a woman, followed by some slow press-ups and a miraculous orgasm for the female star, as if no one west of Ellis Island had ever heard of a clitoral stimulation. Women masturbate themselves.
Pornography is a challenge to Britain's conservative censorship lobby.
It's a truly popular form of entertainment which threatens established prejudices, often pioneering sexual practices considered taboo. It's a daring Hollywood film in which the man isn't on top. In carnal contrast, pornography prefers the fantasy of the sexually eager woman. And adult viewers of any material, however raunchy, should not be treated like children. God knows what we might be provoked into doing by such images.