Another day and another commission. Dead chuffed. I've now got two pieces in the New Year's Day edition of the Daily Star, which is a good start to the New Year.
Had some brilliant new stories added to Cliterati today including this lesbian fantasy. Sadly, it included fisting, which had to be edited down to four fingers because of the odd obscenity laws. The law is incredibly vague (nothing allowed that will deprave or corrupt or deprave or corrupt further) so we have to take our lead from the stuff that gets seized/has a precedent for not being allowed. Some stuff is obvious and we wouldn't want to have on there anyway - violence, non-consent, underage, bestiality etc. Other stuff is much woolier.
We don't allow fisting because customs seize videos that include it, but it does seem like it's a very homophobic guideline. That's not to say that fisting is an exclusively gay/lesbian practice (one female sex researcher claims that it's the best way for a woman to achieve orgasm) but we certainly get more fisting mentioned in lesbian stories submitted than we do in straight ones. And it's annoying that I can't risk putting it up because cliterati's too young a company to be able to afford being sued. Sure, I could put my money (!) where my mouth is and take the gamble but if I did, our lack of funds means that Cliterati would probably just get closed down altogether. Which would suck.
Posted by emilyd at December 29, 2002 10:27 PM