For former editor of 'Australian Women's Forum', Helen Vnuk, being prevented by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) from showing normal vaginas in a health story on plastic surgery was the last straw.
Material acceptable in arthouse films and lifestyle or women's magazines is now deemed inappropriate for adult videos or magazines. Where did instructions demanding that vaginas be "healed to a single crease" to be acceptable for public viewing come from? How and why had the basic adult right to choose what we see and read been quietly snatched from us?
In this book, Vnuk shows that the system of censorship developed over the past decade is built on poor academic theory and shoddy research, shaped by minority morals groups, slanted by intellectual snobbery and bogged down by bureaucracy.
'Snatched' is a persuasive, balanced and engaging exploration of censorship by stealth.
