Alan Moore: Lost Girls V3 (DE-BOWDLERIZED) (2006|Dgtl|K7-Empire)
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As the name indicates, this is K7-Empire's Digital Hi-Res re-release of the final volume of Alan Moore's "Lost Girls", with all 11 expurgated interior pages restored from an earlier non-digital DCP release ( http://piratebayproxy.live/torrent/9058333 ). At a guess, the original version was cut the way it was because the pages in question depict and describe sexual contact between pubescent and mature characters, which is to say "child porn", as long as one defines that term sufficiently broadly. Thus, this was censorship of material perceived as "too offensive", unless the above guess missed the mark. In my estimation, the material is only mildly offensive, and in this case decidedly less so than the resultant would-be-remedial hatchet job is to the work's artistic integrity. Moreover, the passages in question are hardly "porn" - do not primarily aim to arouse - in the first place, despite the use of the term by the authors themselves, but are concerned with the various sexual aspects of the human condition. Thus, the price of sanitizing them is rather steep: It compromises an entire layer of content and context - while demonstrating some of its very points in a sort of self-referential way that is both curious and creepy. Feel free to discuss the pros and cons below. I reserve the right to censor that hypothetical discussion by withholding my even more hypothetical contributions, though! :P
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Thank you! Nice to know there are still people standing against censorship (that is always so "well intentioned"...).
My pleasure!
I don't generally consider myself an anti-censorship crusader, and tend to get just as annoyed with those zealots who interpret "censorship is bad" as an injunction against content filtering in any form or shape, including those controlled by the consumer, as I do with their opposite numbers who feel justified in depriving an entire audience of all controversial content out of a rampant sense of "knowing best what's good for others".
My parents did a good job of raising me without that leftover-Victorian "sex is naughty" notion that's still ingrained in much of Western culture to some extent, which means that my personal scale of offensiveness is likely offset from the norm. But what really annoyed me about this particular instance of censorship was that the perpetrators didn't see fit to include a note to let the readers know that, and why, material is being withheld. That, in my (figurative) book, crosses an ethical boundary that's far more important than the one they concern themselves with.
i'm probably splitting hairs, but was the FourthMan scan censored by the publisher, or by the scanner? i didn't quite understand that detail from your description, my friend.
in any event, thanks a lot for this and your other ups! :-)
in any event, thanks a lot for this and your other ups! :-)
gotcha! yeah i was also curious if this was a case where a digital retailer (comixology, for example) had censored a relatively old graphic novel... sigh... isn't it sad when people in our society worry more over a drawing of a fictional girl than they do about real-life human suffering and the epidemics of stupidity like bad parenting?
Indeed. Or, as Neil Gaiman put it regarding a somewhat similar matter in which someone did end up getting into legal trouble:
"The ability to distinguish between fiction and reality is, I think, an important indicator of sanity, perhaps the most important. And it looks like the Australian legal system has failed on that score."
- http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/word-person-included-fictional-or.html
i work with some aussies. they think the usa government is sane, by comparison. lol
Well this was incredibly timely - Lost Girls just made history in New Zealand as the very first book to be pulled from our National Library for being too explicit.
New Zealand has mandatory ratings for video and music (which are actually handled very fairly - video games for adults are left for adults, and no one makes a fuss about the content. Remember the Hot Coffee hack for GTA? In NZ it was a non event because the game was already rated R18, meaning it was illegal to provide it to anyone under 18, and adding a bit more sex in didn't change a thing).
Lost Girls was actually pulled by the Library itself, on the grounds that it was too explicit.
(details from local news website: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/9304502/Fairytale-sex-off-the-shelves )
Thanks gesserit - I'm pretty sure this'll get a few NZ hits from people wondering just why it got pulled!
New Zealand has mandatory ratings for video and music (which are actually handled very fairly - video games for adults are left for adults, and no one makes a fuss about the content. Remember the Hot Coffee hack for GTA? In NZ it was a non event because the game was already rated R18, meaning it was illegal to provide it to anyone under 18, and adding a bit more sex in didn't change a thing).
Lost Girls was actually pulled by the Library itself, on the grounds that it was too explicit.
(details from local news website: http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/9304502/Fairytale-sex-off-the-shelves )
Thanks gesserit - I'm pretty sure this'll get a few NZ hits from people wondering just why it got pulled!
whups forgot to finish that paragraph about our government censorship... Books are not automatically censored like movies/music and games - so no one has actually given Lost Girls any rating, meaning it is legally allowed to be provided to anyone.
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