Most Australians would assume that it’s hard to buy child porn in this country. But they’d be wrong.
Truth be told, you don’t even need to buy it. You can just go and borrow it from your local library. For free. It’s kept on the children’s shelves. I exposed that problem last week.
But this week we have a different problem.
Sadly, it is not hard to buy child exploitation material online in Australia. In fact, as the old advertising jingle goes, you can basically purchase this stuff wherever good books are sold online.
Just as sadly, it seems that the government will monitor the sale but only to ensure that the GST is paid. There are priorities, you know, and taxation is more important than stamping out sales of child porn.
Let me explain.
Sometime in 2022, the Australian Border Force seized a series of comics called To Love Ru Darkness.
These books are a form of Japanese cartoon called ‘manga’. Think AstroBoy crossed with pornography plus a hint of Satanism thrown in for good measure.
This is how online bookstores describe the series:
In this sequel series to To Love Ru, Princess Lala’s younger sister Momo begins her own marital machinations to ensnare poor Rito. But to make her plan a reality, he has to become king of their interstellar empire, which would allow him to marry as many women as he wants! As Rito’s heart continues to waver between Lala and his first crush, Haruna, Momo finds herself unable to deny the feelings she has for the hapless earthling high schooler. Could a human alien harem be the solution to all their problems?
According to the fan pages (yes, there are fan pages for this child porn), ‘Momo’, is described as being so addicted to physical pleasure that she is incapable of distinguishing lust from love.
Momo is ‘highly perverted’ and tempts her ‘interest’ with ‘a flower garden of girls’.
Also, Momo is just 14 years old.
So it is not surprising that the Australian Classification Board determined that these books:
describe or depict in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not).
These determinations were made between July and November last year.
Now, I note that it is possible for a book to be refused classification because of the way it depicts a child under the age of 18 (whether the person is engaged in sexual activity or not).
So it is theoretically possible that To Love Ru Darkness was refused classification because it showed Momo being overly violent. Or something.
But we are not idiots. We all know what this series is about. We are dealing with cartoons of child pornography that are drawn by adult perverts for adult perverts and which also happen to be highly appealing to curious older children.
It is obscene.
As a result, To Love Ru Darkness has been ‘refused classification’ in Australia, which means:
Refused Classification (RC) is a classification category referring to films, computer games and publications that cannot be sold, hired, advertised or legally imported in Australia. RC-classified material contains content that is very high in impact and falls outside generally-accepted community standards.
In other words To Love Ru Darkness is so abhorrent that there is no legal classification it can be given in Australia and it is not allowed into this nation.
That all sounds fair enough.
Except you can go to Amazon Australia and buy the entire series. And, if you do, the government will be watching too. But not for the reason you might expect.
They say nothing is as certain as death and taxes. And in this case it seems that they are right. You’ve gotta pay your taxes even when you’re buying child porn.
And it’s not just Amazaon Australia selling this stuff. Penguin Australia advertises this series. So does Dymocks. And so do a bunch of other retailers.
And this is not the only series of Japanese cartoons that have been banned in Australia because they are child pornography.
Another series was banned over three years ago. But it is advertised online in Australian websites today.
I have raised this problem with the Queensland police. Let’s see what happens…
March 24, 2023
This is so wrong on every level! I don’t understand how a library can get away with this! I thought it would definitely be prohibited material in a library, especially the childrens’ section! Surely, they should be charged with child endangerment! Just because it’s presented in cartoons does not make it any less perverse!😡
March 17, 2023
This must NOT continue. I’m a grandparent and want to see children’s innocence protected at all costs.
I’m so tired of indifference! It’s the latter that is helping to promote this filth.
You are doing a great job Bernard. May God bless you and yours.
March 16, 2023
Typical of Government I would say. I think a lot of them are not aware of what morals are and have little if any. Where are we heading I despair at times.
Thank you Bernard for what you do.
March 15, 2023
A local children’s organization is promoting porn for kids. Please join with me and pray the Rosary for an end to it and for the conversion of those who are doing it.
March 15, 2023
Nikki Osborne promotes an Onlyfans account which is a nudist pornography account where people are encouraged to interact with her and send in their nudes to her as well. She uses children’s organizations to promote this stuff. She is obscene and has publicly promoted Satanism. I speculate demonic obsession or possession. It’s very serious. Please PRAY THE ROSARY FOR AN END TO THIS BEING PROMOTED TO CHILDREN. I don’t think there is much we can actively do to oppose it, but try the long St Michael’s prayer (exorcism). The short one is often said after a low Mass. It is called the short exorcism.