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Australia finished setting up its great firewall and began filtering their Internet (like much-accused China) this year censoring protests, pornography, and anything else the government-appointed censorship board found to be amoral. The secret, unpublished list has continued to grow as more and more websites are filtered and more reasons to filter are invented. Censorship in the country is becoming increasingly common as it is around the world in many developed nations. Governments seem to think that morals can be mandates and that citizens should be uniform. Surprised yet?

The latest uproar came when the censorship board was found to be increasingly banning pornography with women have an A-cup breast size because small breasts, they say, encourage pedophilia. This brought a steaming reaction across the Internet as it alienated a majority of women, handed out a government-catered sexual aesthetic preference, and essentially made assumptive cultural attacks on small-breasted women. While many supporters of government filtering have been quick to point out: the censorship board isn’t banning all small-breasted women. Are we supposed to be more comfortable with the fact that they are picking on just select groups then? Certain ethnic minorities that are profiting in the porn industry perhaps?

Many ignore the story all-together since it is just porn after all, but the important thing to notice is that in the problem of pedophilia and the Internet we continue to punish the wrong people. No amount of censorship will keep pedophiles away from what they crave. Punishing someone for the size of their breasts, saying that they encourage pedophilia, and then zapping some of their revenue in the process is not the way to catch or even stop pedophiles. Pedophilia starts and can be stopped off of the Internet.

Moving on to the next issue and for some reason much-ignored portion of the press release is the fact that the censor board is banning depictions of female ejaculation during orgasm. Ignoring female sexuality entirely the board is banning these depictions under the grounds that female ejaculation is abhorrent. A quick biology lesson tells us that female ejaculation is entirely natural, happens every time, and while typically only small and adding to typical vaginal lubrication can in certain situations come out in quantity and under great pressure much like the often-heralded male ejaculation or ba-dum-ching cumshot.

Many tracing the trending effects of the Australian censorship board have said that the panel’s mandates have already had massive changes on media this year. Their breast-size rulings have caused the magazines to take a plunge toward large breasted models to avoid hassle. What then will a banning of female ejaculation bring about? The very idea that a natural biological process or that someone’s natural size and shape are considered abhorrent means that the government can mandate proper size and protocol in sexual aesthetics and interaction.

People are quick to jump on the avoidance bandwagon and say that it’s just porn. The fact is that pornography has existed since cavemen figured out how to draw dicks on walls. Pornography, though in the background of society, depicts and defines a generations sexual tastes and preferences. Pornography is often how people come to discover how sexuality should be played out. Whether in written, visual, or spoken form it has a large influence on a generation’s sexual development. Where did your first “pornographic” experience come from? Where were your ideas of sexuality first formed?

As censorship boards increasingly become the norm across the Internet of the free world and not just under oppressive regimes we have to remember that censorship of aesthetics or biology is nothing more than discrimination and can only lead to discriminatory cultural trends. Censors have a vast influence on the shape of the next generation. Just think of children that have grown up with the Internet versus their elders — the difference is vast. Now think of a child who’s grown up under a government that has always discriminated against a certain political, religious, or colored group versus their elders. Censorship destroys the progress and freedoms that all men and women have fought for with a single, conservative, fear-backed blow.