Fiona Patten Urges Change to Illogical Laws that Ban Selling Porn in Victoria

All you Victorians filming your genitals – you’ve been breaking the law.

Sex Party MP Fiona Patten wants to change Victoria’s X-rated classification laws to bring them in line with federal legislation.

Victorians can legally buy, own and watch X-rated films, but can’t sell them or film them.

“You can take a photo of a naked man with an erection, but not film it,” Ms Patten said.

The Victorian Sex Party is pushing for a change in classification laws to allow the sale of X-rated films in Victoria.

Sex Party MP Fiona Patten told Victorian Parliament it was “illogical” for buying and owning X-rated films to be legal while selling them was against the law.

She moved a motion this morning calling for a change in classification laws to allow for “tighter regulations” of X-rated films.

She told Fairfax Media that X-rated films were being sold in petrol stations and news agencies despite the ban.

“The effect of this (proposed) legislation is not to open up the market it’s to crack down on it,” she said.

The X-rated classification applies to films that show actual sexual intercourse and other sexual activity between consenting adults.

X-rated films can only be sold or hired in the ACT and Northern Territory.

“I would hope that in 2015 the archaic law that prohibits the sale of sexually explicit material in Victoria would be overturned,” Ms Patten said.

“Thousands of people are buying DVDs and, surprising to me, to even VHS cassettes.”

Ms Patten said she hoped the matter would come back for debate in Parliament after the winter break, which begins this week.