Puritan German Customs
Today we had to take away Germany from the list of countries where we ship products from our online store. And we did that with sorrow and pity, because we have a lot of loyal and good customers in that great country. How is it possible that Germany, who has just celebrated 20 years of the fall of the wall, is now being so conservative and restrictive of liberties to confiscate helathy adult dvds in the customs?
The Article 184 StGB of their “Criminal Code” says that material will be confiscated if it portrays violence, sexual abuse of children or sexual activities of humans with animals. Well… none of those things are in my movies, obviously.
So I guess a German guy has opened my packages, saw the non-ofensive, well designed covers of FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER or BARCELONA SEX PROJECT and said: “THIS IS UGLY , DISGUSTING PORNOGRAPHY, KAPUTT!”. We are not going to deliver to Germany until all this mess is clarified, and it’s a pity because we are about to launch the version 2.0 of our Lust Store with a lot of trendy and modern stuff. If any of you girls and guys out there living in Germany can help us fight this war, you are welcome! E mail tips, ideas or suggestions to fightpuritans@lustfilms.com
I hate the hypocrisy of our society, allowing violence, having legalized drugs that we know that are really bad for our health like tobacco and alcochol, and having this really strange attitude towards sex. As if Sex was an illegal substance, or activity or an illegal weapon. Sex is Life, sex is Joy, sex is Health!!!
I dare these puritans in the German ZOLL (Customs) to take it easy with sex, if it wasn’t for the sex none of us would be alive!
German people you can still watch or download my movies online with German audio or subtitles.
Check out: http://www.lustcinema.com/
Comment by Erika — November 12, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
I think that the custom guys should read your book. I got it from Amazon the other day and I have to say that it is wonderful!
Comment by Tobias — November 12, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Germany, that would be the last country i expect to do such a thing, it is a pitty, i hope this mess is solved soon.
Comment by JAGW — November 12, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
Situation in Germany:
It’s unlikely that this is solved soon.
Hardcore pornography indeed is allowed in germany (exceptions in §184 StGB you cited), but it is strictly prohibited to allow minors to access it.
While in the US a simple “Are you over 18?” question as the first site of a porno-website seems to be sufficient, in Germany the age has to be checked. This also applies for buying pornography via mail order (and there it even has to be ensured that the recipient is the same as the buyer).
Normally this is done with postal age-checks (using an approved adult verification system (AVS)).
Ironically not the recipient is chargeable, but the sender which can not be taken to court as he is not in the country.
Situation of mail order from other countries:
But even if you would implement an approved AVS the mailings would still be illegal according to §15 JuSchG (5) which prohibits importing via mail order.
I suspect you send from within the EU, which normally means the packages are seldomly checked. But this is of course not “solution”.
BTW: Until 2004 mail order of pornography was prohibited completely in Germany. So it was even worse…
Comment by anonymous german — November 12, 2009 @ 5:17 pm
omG look to new clip of rammstein, its as pornographic as FIVE HOT STORIES FOR HER >.<
I didn’t expect this from that country.
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Aleatório
Comment by Aleatório — November 13, 2009 @ 2:28 am
It’s the market, stupid … ! The bad bad sexpositive feminism is coming. ;-) We will find a way!
Comment by Commander Morgaine — November 13, 2009 @ 10:56 am
The World has gone Crazy….
Comment by alessandra — November 13, 2009 @ 11:27 am
??? My comment was removed? A little bit strange!
I am the author of the first German book about blogs and one of those who informed about your manifest.
Surprised!
Commander Morgaine
Comment by Commander Morgaine — November 13, 2009 @ 11:57 am
O.K.! :-) A misunderstanding? It is my black black humor.
Comment by Commander Morgaine — November 13, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
Me encanta tu blog! Me hace feliz ver tantos latinos con blogues en Español. Regresaré pronto!
Comment by Juguetes Sexuales — November 16, 2009 @ 4:41 am
It’s nothing about purity, German laws are often a little “outdated”. Get yourself a local distributor (shouldn’t be too difficult)…
Comment by Sumpf — November 16, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
We have a distributor and my movies are in German stores and German online stores. But when you buy a film from us, in our online store, we earn like 10 times more than when you buy it after the whole chain of distribution. You see the difference, don’t you?
Comment by Erika — November 16, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Thanks to all for your feedback!
Comment by Erika Lust — November 18, 2009 @ 4:03 pm