Any Australians here know Customs view on imported hentai?
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I just want to know if there are any Australian members in the forums that have ordered hentai material on the store. Did your orders get delivered like normal, no hassles from the Australian customs/border patrol?
Australia is pretty much very strict in terms of R-18 content with games getting censored often or banned entirely. I don't know about other media like books or movies but I'll assume they are similarly strict too. Reading some articles online also showed some serious, albeit few, cases about international hentai manga/doujin orders that got their items confiscated, they get fined or even charged as a sex offender due to some content such as loli material getting called child porn, bestiality and many more.
I have preordered a physical copy of Renai Sample and is the first time I have ordered R-18 from overseas. I'm certain Renai Sample is mostly vanilla but you never know how they'll perceive it if Airport customs somehow opened the package. I'm just getting paranoid as Australia is pretty clean-cut about stuff coming into the country and hentai has this thing about it that makes it "special" compared to normal porn.
Hopefully there are some Aussies here that can clarify.
Cheers.
Australia is pretty much very strict in terms of R-18 content with games getting censored often or banned entirely. I don't know about other media like books or movies but I'll assume they are similarly strict too. Reading some articles online also showed some serious, albeit few, cases about international hentai manga/doujin orders that got their items confiscated, they get fined or even charged as a sex offender due to some content such as loli material getting called child porn, bestiality and many more.
I have preordered a physical copy of Renai Sample and is the first time I have ordered R-18 from overseas. I'm certain Renai Sample is mostly vanilla but you never know how they'll perceive it if Airport customs somehow opened the package. I'm just getting paranoid as Australia is pretty clean-cut about stuff coming into the country and hentai has this thing about it that makes it "special" compared to normal porn.
Hopefully there are some Aussies here that can clarify.
Cheers.
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I'm interested in this also. I know it's been a while since you've posted this up but I was wondering if you can provide an update with the status of your order? I would love to and I plan to purchase some physical hentai books from here but right now, I find it too risky.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-29/secrets-of-obscenity-the-classification-riddle/2776656
After recently reading the ABC article linked above, I started getting worried. I don't know if I read the article correclty but according to it, "hentai manga" is classified as a "Refused Classification" (RC) here in Australia.
Now I'm just wondering if books like these can slip past Customs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-06-29/secrets-of-obscenity-the-classification-riddle/2776656
After recently reading the ABC article linked above, I started getting worried. I don't know if I read the article correclty but according to it, "hentai manga" is classified as a "Refused Classification" (RC) here in Australia.
Now I'm just wondering if books like these can slip past Customs.
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And, that my frieds is why I'm absulutely sure that politicians from everywhere are incompetent fools.
Not being able to differentiate between fiction and reality, is often the sign of a mental disorder.
Why should pictures made of paper, ink/pixels be exemt of this rule ?
Those are fictional, yet many people treat them as if they were real.
If their problem with the stuff is, that people who read/watch/play them would attempt to do the same to real children/animals they can rest assured, if a person did that after being exposed to such media, he/she would have done it regardless.
And just for the record, some of the real deviants are held back by these harmless fap materials, such as these hentai manga, they (the governing body) are so hell bent on banning.
Anyway.
Congrats on your purchase, I hope it get to you in one piece.
Happy fapping.
Not being able to differentiate between fiction and reality, is often the sign of a mental disorder.
Why should pictures made of paper, ink/pixels be exemt of this rule ?
Those are fictional, yet many people treat them as if they were real.
If their problem with the stuff is, that people who read/watch/play them would attempt to do the same to real children/animals they can rest assured, if a person did that after being exposed to such media, he/she would have done it regardless.
And just for the record, some of the real deviants are held back by these harmless fap materials, such as these hentai manga, they (the governing body) are so hell bent on banning.
Anyway.
Congrats on your purchase, I hope it get to you in one piece.
Happy fapping.
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Voice of perverted experience:
Short version: Don't get caught if you think it might be refused classification. At best they just confiscate it, at worst they report you to the AFP.
Long version: I've personally seen the AFP try to stick it to some shotacon fans. Fortunately for them, the AFP failed to gather enough evidence, but not for want of trying.
I've had packages of my own opened an inspected. Thank tenticles, it was the vocaloid erotic cosplay with well placed leaks, and not the Choco pop up book.
The awesome freaks down at Polyester told me back when mangarotica was still printing that when a H shipment is inspected, they lost half of it every time.
If you use tracked postage, and they decide to inspect they will check it faster... but still check.
Lastly if they think you are supplying to a minor (or heaven forbid, you lied when you clicked "i am over 18") and they find porn in a package, a lifetime on the sex offender registry is the very least of your worries. remember that a minor giving prons to a minor still counts as supplying under australian law. Yup, you CAN go to jail for loaning a mate your dirty books.
I used to order from places like mandrake where i could get a model kit or a figure added as well, but I've had that shit inspected now too. You have been warned.
Or ya know, take advantage of faku books n just download stuff. In the midst of all those goddamend buggers downloading game of thrones, even the high res version of these delicious porns aint gonna be noticeable in our flood of torrent traffic.
Short version: Don't get caught if you think it might be refused classification. At best they just confiscate it, at worst they report you to the AFP.
Long version: I've personally seen the AFP try to stick it to some shotacon fans. Fortunately for them, the AFP failed to gather enough evidence, but not for want of trying.
I've had packages of my own opened an inspected. Thank tenticles, it was the vocaloid erotic cosplay with well placed leaks, and not the Choco pop up book.
The awesome freaks down at Polyester told me back when mangarotica was still printing that when a H shipment is inspected, they lost half of it every time.
If you use tracked postage, and they decide to inspect they will check it faster... but still check.
Lastly if they think you are supplying to a minor (or heaven forbid, you lied when you clicked "i am over 18") and they find porn in a package, a lifetime on the sex offender registry is the very least of your worries. remember that a minor giving prons to a minor still counts as supplying under australian law. Yup, you CAN go to jail for loaning a mate your dirty books.
I used to order from places like mandrake where i could get a model kit or a figure added as well, but I've had that shit inspected now too. You have been warned.
Or ya know, take advantage of faku books n just download stuff. In the midst of all those goddamend buggers downloading game of thrones, even the high res version of these delicious porns aint gonna be noticeable in our flood of torrent traffic.
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If there's Australian websites that sell hentai then I really don't understand why it should be confiscated.
There's a store in Melbourne that has a whole bookshelf dedicated to hentai.
There's a store in Melbourne that has a whole bookshelf dedicated to hentai.
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tokkii wrote...
If there's Australian websites that sell hentai then I really don't understand why it should be confiscated.Because they CAN. Because customs are a bunch of pricks who know they can confiscate your porn, and all you can do is lodge an appeal that gets you nowhere. If it's sexual material that's unclassified, they can take it to "check" and never send it on and there is not a goddamend thing you can do about it.
There's a store in Melbourne that has a whole bookshelf dedicated to hentai.
There's a few of them :) As well as the above mentioned polyester, Kanga does some interesting books, and OzAni used to before they went all ccgs. And of course siren, based in Melbourne, does a great range of H DVD's if you ask their sales staff politely.
I love this city. suits me to a T.