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LadyEllen -> RE: Girls Aloud porno writer cleared of charges (6/29/2009 11:45:18 AM)
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Obscene Publications Act 1959 & 1964The law makes it an offence to publish, whether for gain or not, any content whose effect will tend to "deprave and corrupt" those likely to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.
The test for whether material will deprave and corrupt seems to be one of those where reference to a "reasonable person" is made; would a "reasonable person" find the material would tend to deprave and corrupt?
The problem for the OSA in the modern world then becomes clear. Times have changed a great deal, mostly (but not always) for the better when to comes to depraved and corrupted.
That the CPS effectively withdrew from the case says a great deal about what they expected a reasonable person to interpret as depraved and corrupt nowadays; basically we're mostly already depraved and corrupted and therefore could not be affected by this material?
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