Weekly Round-Up II
I should have added this yesterday but I missed it. Indigo drew my attention to it at 6.45 this morning. But it looks like Pandora is back in business and her persecutors are out of it, having been suspended according to one report this morning.
The press release on Pandora’s site reads:
Pandora Blake, award-winning activist and feminist pornographer, has won her appeal to Ofcom against ATVOD and can reinstate her site Dreams of Spanking, which was banned under the AVMS guidelines in August 2015, triggering widespread anger among free speech advocates as well as porn fans.
The controversial Audiovisual Media Services Regulations came into effect in December 2014, banning consensual sex acts from online porn including facesitting, female ejaculation, and spanking that leaves marks. Pandora Blake took part in the ‘facesitting protest’ outside Westminster, and also spoke on Newsnight and Women’s Hour challenging the sexist and regressive nature of the regulations. She believes that speaking out made her a target for censorship.
ATVOD – the Association for TV on Demand – were tasked with regulating online porn in 2010. While porn critics often focus on the ‘mainstream’ industry, ATVOD made a point of targeting independent niche and fetish porn producers, including a disproportionate number of female filmmakers. In January 2016, Ofcom shut down the quango amid rumours that it was acting beyond its remit.
Pandora Blake said, “The point of Dreams of Spanking was to make ethical porn based on my own fantasies. I’m not ashamed of being kinky and there’s no harm in adults sharing consensual BDSM films. The AVMS regulations effectively criminalised my sexuality. I was singled out because I criticised the new laws. ATVOD tried to shut me up, but they failed.”
“Now I’ve won my appeal I feel vindicated. It proves that it’s worth standing up to bullies. The war against intrusive and oppressive state censorship isn’t over, but this decision is a landmark victory for feminist porn, diversity and freedom of expression.”
You can read more here.
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Weekly Round-Up
The world still turns and summer is well and truly here. It seems everyone has something new for me to do.
Speaking of new, Kia of Acknowledging Imperfection has a new book out, her first. I haven’t read it yet, but knowing Kia and having glanced at the blurb I rather suspect that this semi-autobiographical.
On the subject of new, Dallas has found some old sessions that he did with his original muse Tikki.
Elsewhere Bonnie has a short discussion on consent. Vanilla Spanking has another go at spanking in the theatre: an unrelated picture above from that site. Richard Windsor, ever first with the news of yesteryear, reminisces about the old days when spanking sites made money.
Other pictures are from: Devlin, About, All Things, CutiePie, Able, Sensual Drift, AAA, Spanking Toons and the Spanking Blog.
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The Art of Spanking
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Weekly Round-Up
A bit tied up this week – a lot on. Here is what I have so far. Images from various sources.
Have a great Bank Holiday.
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Spanking in Advertising
Spanking is not the force it once was in the advertising world, for one thing it has to be said that in a vanilla environment it is hard to get away from the accusations of sexism. Also we live in less innocent times and such content is far too blatant. But the idea that spanking was only deployed for its comic affect or conservative punitive ideals should move over.
The treatment of the college art school project in the cutting above must dispel that one. Please note the bare rueful and casual reference to Daddy spanking his adult daughter.
The cigarette advert is evidently real, although the graphic has been enhanced to remove any subtlety in case we missed it.
The bride is less spanking focused and more recent, but is apparently a still taken from an advert for a bridal wear company. There was another more blatant spanking scene from an advert that I have seen but couldn’t find. Racy to the point that the bride is spanked in a thong, but that now banned scene was played for laughs. I think it was an advertisement for an employment arbitration service.
The most recent outing for a ‘spanking’ scene was the one where a woman is birched on a massage table on the beach. This was shown in the UK for a few months, but again I couldn’t find it and don’t remember what it was advertising.
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