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Originally Posted by forelander
What's odd is I don't think books go through any classification here. Some magazines do, but I've never heard of books. Which is funny, since any kid can read Chopper Read's books, but can't see some pixilated sexual content. It's all a bit silly really.
Though I should be careful, if the OFLC gets wind of this soon no one will be allowed to read books with sexual content either.
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Well, not specific to Australia, but something that I've found funny about censorship is that before television and movies, books were highly criticized and censored if they contained anything offensive. Then the censorship and criticism went to television and movies and lightened up a lot on books. Then video games came out and the censorship was on: TV, video games, and movies and completely off of books. Now, it's almost like, "Kids should be reading! They need to read books!" and they don't even think that this book has graphic sex scenes and intense violence that is much much more extreme than the movies and video games they are criticizing.
When I read books, I feel I know the characters and identify with them much much more than in any movie or video game. I feel like I personally know the people in the book I'm reading.
Not sure I get the reason behind this...