Comments on: Anna Span tells all about female ejaculation, girl porn and the BBFC

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:54:30 +0000

Just in case it helps, every one of Anna’s films has at least an R18 certification, and the majority of her titles also have an edited 18 certification, the latter being sold in regular stores. R18 may only be sold from licensed sex shops, downloaded or, peculiarly, purchased outside of the UK via mail order. If anyone would like further information on the films, please feel free to email Anna’s production and distrobution company, Easy On The Eye @ ben@easyote.co.uk
Tim

By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:56:04 +0000

Here’s an example of an Anna Span DVD on Amazon UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Southwark-Sugar/dp/B0014BPA90/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1255002319&sr=8-2

If you click on the boxcover art you’ll see the title is rated R, the BBFC equivent of the MPAA’s NC-17. This film has been edited from the original R-18 release, which in the UK can only be sold in government licensed sex shops.

Unless and until Span’s new work is cut so that it can get a BBFC R rating, it will have very limited distribution outlets.

This system gives these government licensed shops tremendous power over erotic filmmakers and audiences both. With no other outlets, the licensed sex shops can set the wholesale price and the retail price with virtually no competition.

By: Tony Comstock

Tony Comstock — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:40:07 +0000

Rest the rest at the gate and I’d like to make a couple of points about the difference between the BBFC and the MPAA

The BBFC system is mandatory. It’s run by the government. You can’t release film or DVD in the UK without submitting for a rating. Not so here in the US. Here in the US an filmmaker has the option to release a film without an MPAA rating. Most of the DVDs carried at retailers like Good Vibes or Blowfish are unrated.

The BBFC R rating is functionally equivalent to the MPAA’s NC-17. Both are “No one under 18 years of age allowed” ratings.

The Rating given by the BBFC to Anna Span’s film is R-18 is more restrictive than NC-17 rating. The BBFC R 18 rating restricts her DVD to licensed sex shops. No Amazon UK for R-18 DVDs. No feminist book stores R-18 DVDs. No theatrical screening, and that includes film festivals.

Again submitting a film to the BBFC system is required by the government. In fact, the stores that carry our film in the UK, all of them small women-run operations risk fine and or jail for offering our DVDs to the government, and it is illegal for them to sell R18 DVDs. If they decide to carry Anna Spam’s DVD, they risk going to jail for that too.

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