Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
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Travelers to Australia need to declare the porn they're bringing into the country to customs agents. The Prison Island government is actually asking you to declare illegal porn, but as you can imagine, there has been some confusion: "According to the Australian Sex Party spokesman Robbie Swan, one case involved a couple on their honeymoon, who thought they had to declare naked iPhone pictures of themselves after reading the incoming passenger card. They were made to display a nude photo of themselves in a line with all these other people; they were so embarrassed." Nobody tell Brett Favre!

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HiredGoons (#603)

Well this just opens up a whole new wealth of possibilities for Taryn Simon.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/taryn-simon-1/

Jared (#1,227)

I believe there was a case a few years ago when an Australian grad student was found with Japanese manga kiddie-porn–for entirely innocent research-related purposes–and was prosecuted. (Is it actually illegal if no children are harmed? etc.)

But there's no way I want to use the internet to find any more details about that.

garge (#736)

I made the mistake of entering Canada through a tiny town in North Dakota, thinking it would save time off of the main drag. The border patrol person made me us go inside the station and empty our pockets as he went through every single thing in the car. It wasn't until later that I noticed that the polaroids in the glove box were–ahem–rather out of order and in a state of disarray. At least they ASK in Australia!

Jeffrey Simpson (#8,055)

If I had the time and inclination I think I might arrange to have a suitcase full of porn DVDs. And declare it. Though then they might argue I had enough for "supply"…

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