Friday, June 15, 2007

 
and you thought YOU were anti-porn:

courtesy the fine folks at CNN, via Trinity, Belle, Ren, etc:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corrupter of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corrupter of the world."

The term, "corrupter of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" referred to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

The bill also envisages convictions ranging from one year imprisonment to a death sentence for the main distributors of the movies and also producers of Web sites in which the pornographic works appear.

Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVDs and CDs. Other material, such as porn magazines and books, are already banned under Iranian law.

To become law, the bill requires an approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog in Iran.

It is widely believed that the drafting of the bill came about as a reaction to a scandal last year, when a private videotape, apparently belonging to Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi and allegedly showing her having intercourse with a man, became available across Iran.

The videotape was leaked to the Internet and released on a black market DVD, becoming a full-blown Iranian sex tape scandal. Ebrahimi later came under an official investigation, which is still ongoing. She faces fines, whip lashing or worse for her violation of Iran's morality laws.

The unnamed man on the tape, who is suspected of releasing it, reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws. He remains in jail.

In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Guardian early this year, Ebrahimi denied she was the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake, made by a vengeful former fiance bent on destroying her career.

In recent years, private videotapes have increasingly been leaked to the public in Iran, riling the government and many in this conservative Islamic country, where open talk of sex is banned and considered taboo.

However, pornographic material is easily accessible through foreign satellite television channels in Iran. Bootleg videotapes and CDs are also available on the black market on many street corners.


Iran does NOT play, y'all.

But it's not an inconsistent position to take, really, even if one is not an Iranian Fund-o-crat. I mean, if your hatred of pornography is intense enough, why not support such an ordinance?

It's perfectly fair and uniform. Everyone involved gets punished more or less equally.

and if your hatred of pornography is not intense enough, how can you really call yourself anti-porn?

I'd hate to be one of the five representatives who voted against the ordinance, though. I imagine they're having a hard time.

think their colleagues call them "porn-lover"? "tool of America"? "collaborator?" "corruptor-of-the-world-lover"?

Wonder how they found the strength to stand against the anti-porn ordinance.

Comments:
i love you. really, deep down, I wonder if some folk don't actually secretly agree with this method...
 
I bet a number of right wingers would; and I bet a few of the more rabid APRF's wouldn't be too sorry if it were just directed against the male director/co-star.
 
didn't see this until just now

but yes.

very yes.

exactly.
 
What an utterly unselfconscious flaunting of what the four of you really think of feminists that campaign against pornography.
 
anony: what an utterly unselfconscious missing of the point.

just on the off chance you possess some ability to think outside your little "radical" box, let me quote what I was nodding my head at for you and make it easier:

"think their colleagues call them "porn-lover"? "tool of America"? "collaborator?" "corruptor-of-the-world-lover"?"
 
What an utterly unselfconscious flaunting of what the four of you really think of feminists that campaign against pornography.

it's my blog. screw you. what do I have to be selfconscious about?

of course, I'd be a lot more polite if you'd come out and name yourself.
 
"unselfconscious flaunting"

just in time for Pride! you betcha! flaunting, and unselfconsciously so! that's me all right.
 
dude, your dyke is showing! stop flaunting so unselfconsciously! stop it!
 
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