Britain's
first female porn director, Anna Span has won a historic victory with the
passing of her DVD, Women Love Porn which includes a woman clearly
ejaculating.
On initial submission to the BBFC, the board asked for compulsory
edits to remove the female ejaculation section, as they believed the
woman to be urinating and argued therefore it fell foul of the Obscene
Publications Act. Even though most countries worldwide which allow
pornography, do not single out female as opposed to male, ejaculation
for censoring, the BBFC historically do not believe in the phenomenon.
They have refused to pass previous films such as Ben Dover's Squirt
Queens in May 2001, saying that they had not received a convincing
enough argument to support the existence of FE.
Determined to put the record straight, Anna Span presented the BBFC
with irrefutable scientific evidence in support of model DJ's ability to
squirt, as it is known in the adult industry. Anna says; I am
really proud to have changed this outdated ruling and to have made a
difference to women who experience this in their own lives throughout
the UK. It was never fair that the BBFC dismissed their orgasms as
urinary incontinence
Initially the BBFC stood their ground and refused to pass the film
but when Anna pushed for a hearing with the Video Appeals Committee,
they later backed down after taking legal advice. They say that their
position remains fundamentally unchanged for future releases
although it is difficult to see how they can argue against future claims
for DVDs which contain FE, now that this precedent has been set.
It is particularly fitting that Women Love Porn should be so
groundbreaking for women in the UK, as it is the result of a competition
set by Anna Span to encourage new female directors into directing
pornography. Five women won the opportunity to write and film a scene
for the DVD, which includes the contentious FE scene Top Milf by
director Paula Porn. The winner of the competition Katie Coxxx then went
on to film a full DVD of her own titled Apocalypse Angels, also
for Easy on the Eye Productions.
Women Love Porn will be released at Venus International Adult
Trade Fair in Berlin on the 15th October 2009.
Offsite:
Do the BBFC now recognise female ejaculation?
8th October 2009. See
article
from
eyeforfilm.co.uk
by John Ozimek
Female
porn film-maker Anna Span announced triumphantly to the world that she
had won a historic victory with the passing for viewing in the UK of
her DVD, Women Love Porn which includes a woman clearly
ejaculating .
This, she claimed, was as a result of scientific evidence that she
had presented to the BBFC to the effect that female ejaculation is a
real phenomenon - and wholly different in form and origin from
urination.
This distinction is important, as according to the BBFC, depiction of
urination in a sexual context (also known as urolagnia) is illegal under
UK obscenity law - and they will not pass films for viewing that contain
such material.
So the obvious conclusion must be: the BBFC now recognise female
ejaculation.
Not so, according to a spokeswoman for the BBFC. She explained: In
this particular work, there was so little focus on urolagnia, that the
BBFC took legal advice and the advice was that taking the work as a
whole there was no realistic prospect of a successful prosecution under
the Obscene Publications Act and therefore the BBFC passed the work.
However, were the focus on urolagnia to be more significant in other
works, they would require cuts.
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Comment:
Sexuality, as defined by censors
9th October 2009. See
article
from
guardian.co.uk
by Kristina Lloyd
Span's partial victory, achieved after she presented the board with a
wealth of scientific evidence, is of interest to more than a handful of
enthusiasts. Here, the issue is not simply about women being able to
gush without blushing, an aspect of female sexuality is being defined by
an argument between censors and pornographers. But are they the most
appropriate stakeholders for female sexuality? The BBFC's ban colludes
with the cultural default of viewing female sexuality as intangible and
precious, as if the enigma of woman was something beyond the
reach of science.
The irony is that Span has fought for the right to show authentic
representations of the female experience in an industry famed for its
fakery – horribly apt for a culture where female sexuality has been
increasingly pornified , and where sexualities that don't fit
this model are swamped and sidelined. Authenticity is less important
than acceptability, and what has become increasingly acceptable in the
rise of raunch culture are exhibitionist sexualities. With the vogue for
burlesque, lap-dancing and pole-dancing, not to mention the glut of
memoirs from sex workers and strippers, the meaning of the word
sexuality , when applied to women, has become so corrupted it's
practically a fancy way of saying sexiness.
The adult industry needs to acknowledge female desire – the
satisfaction of it, not merely demonstrations of it for the satisfaction
of male desire – and Span's positioning of women as consumers rather
than product is radically different. But have general understandings of
female sexuality become so distorted that it's possible for censors to
reject authenticity in pornography on the grounds it must be bogus? Many
complain that teenage lads gain their sexual knowledge from pornography.
It's troubling when the BBFC seems to learn the same way.
Update:
Evidence of Unwarranted Censorship
13th October 2009. Based on
article
from
annaspansdiary.com
Regarding
the proof we supplied - we sent the BBFC the book The Human Female
Prostrate by Milan Zaviacic professor of pathology for forensic
medicine at the Comenius University Bratislava Slovak Republic
(Slovakia). Zaviacic is the world leader in the medical examination for
the existence of female ejaculation. He has written over 500 essays on
the subject in various worldwide scientific publications. He has won
many international awards from the scientific community for his work.
This book is based on his finding from research conducted from over 20
years' studies focussed on female ejaculation and the female prostrate.
I also enclosed The Female Prostrate Revisited: Perineal
Ultrasound and Biochemical Studies of Female Ejaculate by
Wimpissinger, MD FEBU, Karl Stifter, PhD, Wolfgang Grin, MD and Walter
Stackl, MD.
Another, more recent article from this month's New Scientist
magazine was sent to the BBFC as well. It included numerous personal
affirmations from readers, which follow the article too.
All three documents provided clear, conclusive evidence of women's
ability to ejaculate.
I also enclosed a declaration from the two performers involved in
this particular scene that both agree that this was a case of female
ejaculation - and not urination - which they have also witnessed in
their time. The production staff also concurred.
On top of all this we asked DJ - the model in question - to provide a
sample which was tested under regulated circumstances and the test came
back as definitely NOT urine. We have a certificate for this, hence our
claim for irrefutability.
Offsite:
Fluid Sexuality: Female Ejaculation and Censorship in the UK
16th October 2009. See
article
from
carnalnation.com
by John Ozimek
If
women believe—as very many women do—that they are capable of
ejaculating, then where is the public interest in denying its existence?
Which brings us back once more to the BBFC and what looks to be an
increasingly dishonest position. First, they claim that they have no
view—but in fact, by taking this stance, yet simultaneously claiming
that they have never seen squirting—only urination—they are inevitably
going to censor almost all images of this nature.
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