Re: What's next?
"Art, obviously."
In South Africa in the 1970s there was an apparent classification for "art" and "pr0n" pictures. If the book was an expensive hard-back then it could be officially "art" - any other packaging would be "pr0n". That applied even if the contents were identical.
Hence why the imported "Amateur Photographer" magazine often appeared on the news stands minus its front cover. Record sleeves suffered differently - with indelible black marker ink blotting out any exposed body parts.
The UK published "News of the World" had an international edition which arrived by air - while a private mailing of the UK edition came by surface mail. In one notable case there was a back view of two young women streaking across Westminster Bridge. In the international edition the picture had been modified to add briefs and bra straps.
Someone took exception to the Time-Life educational photographic hard-back books in Pretoria Public Library. All boobs and pubic areas had been neatly excised - leaving neat triangular holes in the pages.
One famous poster was a silhouette of a young woman on a beach at sunset. She was standing sideways - and the shape of her briefs were obvious. What was less certain was whether she was wearing a bikini top. The poster was regularly banned or unbanned depending on current opinions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
