Destricted
The Daily Mail reports that art-house porn film Destricted is to be shown at the Tate Modern, upsetting the usual crowd.
According to the Tate website,
The seven films are explicit in content, highlighting controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art, opening up for debate the question of whether art can be disguised as pornography, or vice versa, and leaving the viewer free to choose his or her own line through these intersections of art and sexuality.
Adults free to choose? God and Beyer forbid!
By showing this film, the Tate is giving porn an air of respectability. It is normalising it
Says the Sage of Ashford and director of Mediawatch-UK.
Lifestyle Extra has more quotes:
This is more evidence that the Board is giving into pressure from the industry and failing to represent the public interest.
This is also further evidence of the urgent need to strengthen the Obscene Publications Act, and while the Home Office is delaying the results of a consultation on the subject, the BBFC is getting more extreme pornography under the wire before the government takes action.
John Beyer wants pornography viewers to be imprisoned for up to three years. Because porn breaks up families, you see. And prison terms don’t.
The film has had pretty bad reviews, but sounds a hoot. Marco Brambilla (director of Demolition Man) contributes a fast-moving two-minute montage of money shots. Sam Taylor-Wood’s contribution features a cowboy masturbating in Death Valley (where “safe sex” presumably means sunblock). And Matthew Barney’s fifteen-minute segment depicts an act which John Beyer himself might derive some benefit from – a man having sex with the lubricated drive shaft of a customised deforestation vehicle.
Beyer wheels out the usual codswallop about porn causing sex crimes and sexualy transmitted diseases!
I would say his desire to have people locked up for three years for viewing porn is a sexualy transmitted disease.
As far as this film is concerned Beyer says it’s a crass publicity stunt….but his winging will give it even more publicity.
I’d say John Beyer is a sexually transmitted disease.
I’d say John Beyer is a sexually transmitted disease.
Unfortunately, it tends to infect the most vulnerable in society, those with pre-existing mental problems usually.
It is disgraceful to suggest that John Beyer might benefit from having nonconsensual sex with the lubricated drive shaft of a customised deforestation vehicle. Without getting the vehicle’s consent first, do you not realise that is tantamount to RAPE? Does this not show all too clearly the moral decline that is caused by AUTOMOTIVE PORNOGRAPHY? Is it really TOO MUCH to ask that all hod-rodders should be arrested and jailed for AT LEAST three years?