Standards and censorship

I read a great interview with Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, in the Weekend Herald's 'Canvas' magazine pull out yesterday. Now im not much of a fan of censorship, but reading some of the things he has had to sit through - Im glad the role exists.

What made me laugh though, was good old David (i cant help but complain about film festivals) Lane and the Society for the Protection of Community Standards. His quotes were hillarious -

The society's executive director, David Lane, believes all hard-core pornography should be banned under the act's provision against "degrading, dehumanising, or demeaning" content.

"Let's take the example of oral sex, where males penetrate a woman right to the depths of her throat.... where the woman chokes with the guy's private part right [there]," says Lane. "Is that degrading or demeaning? We're not talking about a nice gentle caress, we're talking about a woman, so orally penetrated that she has gagged."

"There are other videos which Hastings regularly passes which involves multiple sexual penetration. There might be two men going at it flat-out anally with a woman, and one from the 'front-entry' and another from the 'oral entry' and away you go."

My only question is - what the fuck is David Lane watching to have that level of detail?? And if he is really so offended by it - dont go into the little room at the video store and hire it in the first place!!!

They hardly stock this content under comedy or drama! (maybe 'action' i guess?)