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Slash porn
Topic Started: Aug 19 2007, 06:52 PM (2,791 Views)
Luciene
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1312472007

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Slash porn

LAWYERS for the promoter of the Harry Potter films are clamping down on so-called 'slash porn' featuring the world-famous boy wizard.

It is estimated that there are more than 700 websites worldwide publishing lurid homosexual tales about the lead character in the best-selling books by JK Rowling.

Mainly penned by women, the genre has seen Harry Potter caught in flagrante with a variety of other males featured in the series.

The authors steadfastly refuse to accept that their work is pornography, claiming instead it is an art form.

But now websites used by the 'slash porn' writers are being closed down after legal warnings.

The bizarre craze started about five years ago in the United States but it has now become such a huge global problem that a decision has been made to act.

But the move to shut down the sites has not been universally welcomed.

One online contributor recently wrote: "Some Harry Potter fans have had, for a long time, those kind of fantasies about the characters.

"Slash fans are not new nor rare. I understand that it goes against some policies to publish this kind of stuff but, again, people are allowed to have their own fantasies.

"If they can't put them on this website they'll just start one of their own."

A spokesman for AOL Time Warner, which owns the film rights to Harry Potter and which has been instrumental in cracking down on 'slash porn', said they were determined to maintain their character's image.

He added that it was their "moral obligation" to act: "This is especially true in the case of indecent infringement of any icon whose target audience is children."


I particularly enjoyed it's description as a "bizarre craze" :P
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Apollo
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:sick: :sick: :sick:
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You find a new way to digust me every day Luciene. I second the :sick:
There is a sort of busy worm,
That will the fairest book deform,
Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint
The poet, patiot,sage or saint,
Nor sparing wit nor learning.
Now, if you'd know the reason why,
The best of reasons I'll supply;
'Tis bread to this poor vermin.

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Mwamba
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Oh loosen up people. I don't like slash porn much either, but I'll join the bandwagon if the controversy continues to be in reported in the news like this.

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He added that it was their "moral obligation" to act


Edit: *sigh* My icons have feelings too you know...:cry:
流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
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Lock 'em all up, the strange lot. :P
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What, so heterosexual porn is perfectly permissible? I call hypocrisy.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Plato was right after all. Eros, turned upside down, blackened, distorted and filthy, still bore the traces of his divinity.

It's better to have them on the computer, where we can ignore them, than on the street.
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Luciene
Aug 20 2007, 01:59 PM
It's better to have them on the computer, where we can ignore them, than on the street.

...where we can ignore them.

I think it's more that slash attracts more attention than that Rowling's legal lot think heterosexual porn's alright... any HP porn is pretty screwed up. Rule 34, I guess...
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*grumbles*
Anything Harry Potter is messed up...

What??? Who said that???
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The magical forum gods?
There is a sort of busy worm,
That will the fairest book deform,
Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint
The poet, patiot,sage or saint,
Nor sparing wit nor learning.
Now, if you'd know the reason why,
The best of reasons I'll supply;
'Tis bread to this poor vermin.

J. Doraston
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Apollo
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The ones that aren't Gladstone and Sentynel?

*looks up*
*rain dance*
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Aug 21 2007, 02:17 AM
The ones that aren't Gladstone and Sentynel?

*clears throat*
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Apollo
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And Nathaniel?

Edit: By the way, What heppened to Krim?
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He was banned because he repeatedly did thing he had been warned/banned for before.
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He'll be back... :D
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