Professional Studies - Report: Distribution Process for Pornography

A series of Act's within the UK law, enforces guidelines that effect the production and distribution of pornography. Below i have listed what they are with a brief overview of what they accomplish.



Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008-  
A law that criminalizes possession of what it deems "extreme pornographic images" It refers to pornography which is classed as "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character" and portrays "in an explicit and realistic way" any of the following:

• An act threatening a person's life
• An act which results (or is likely to result) in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals
• An act which involves (or appears to involve) sexual interference with a human corpse
• A person performing (or appearing to perform) an act of intercourse (or oral sex) with an animal (whether dead or alive)

Classified works are exempt, but an extract from a classified work (if the image was extracted for the purpose of sexual arousal) would not be exempt. 


Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981-  
An Act of Parliament covering Scotland, England and Wales but not Northern Ireland. This act is concerned with preventing the display of “indecent” material to the unsuspecting public. As with the Protection of Children Act, the Act does not define indecency, although it does give slight directions as to how a display can be considered indecent. It establishes that “If any indecent matter is publicly displayed the person making the display and any person causing or permitting the display to be made shall be guilty of an offence”, making exceptions for the following:

• Material in a shop behind a warning notice, which is intended to protect sex shops.

• Anything for a paying adult audience only

• Cinemas, theatres, and broadcasting, which are regulated separately

• Displays by “the Crown or any local authority”

• Museums and art galleries

• The actual human body

Other acts are also in place as well as the ones i have already mentioned in previous posts.

"Section 63 - Possession of extreme pornographic images".  Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. 2008

Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981