THURSDAY, DECEBER 9, 1982
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE STANDARD HONG KONG VIOLENT COMICS, AS MOST KUNG-FU MOVIES, AVOID UNACCEPTABLE VIOLENCE THE HERO IS SHOWN AS FULL OF HIGH INTENTIONS. THE VILLAINS ARE AS IMPOSSIBLY EVIL, THE ACTUAL MOMENT OF VIOLENCE IS USUALLY MASKED, THE SETTING IS RARELY EVERYDAY, THE HERO IS SHOWN AS A KIND-HEARTED FRIEND AND A GOOD SON, SEX IS ABSENT, AND VIOLENCE IS NOT OFFERED TO WOMEN.
THESE COMICS ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM SOME GENUINELY SADO- MASOCHISTIC ONES WHICH HAVE BEEN FOUND IN HONG KONG WHERE SEX DOMINATES, WHERE THE LEADING FIGURES (THEY CANNOT BE CALLED HEROES), BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, ARE OFTEN SHOWN NAKED OR NEARLY SO, WHERE VIOLENCE IS OFTEN SHOWN AGAINST WOMEN AND WOMEN CHARACTERS ARE OFTEN SHOWN TORTURED, RAPED OR ABUSED SEXUALLY.
+THESE PUBLICATIONS ARE OBVIOUSLY SOCIALLY DANGEROUS, AND FORM AN EXPLICIT ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE SEXUAL PSYCHOPATH OR LATENT RAPIST TO FOLLOW HIS LUSTS. THEY ARE QUITE UNACCEPTABLE TO LOCAL RESIDENTS. PROSECUTION ACTION IS TAKEN AGAINST THIS SORT OF MATERIAL WHEREVER IT IS FOUND, DR HASE SAID.
HE ALSO MADE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN TWO GROUPS OF SEXUALLY LINKED MATERIAL AVAILABLE IN HONG KONG.
THE FIRST GROUP CONSISTS OF MAGAZINES WHICH AIM AT INTERESTING NORMAL ADULT MEN.
+THEY INCLUDE A SECTION OF NUDE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WOMEN, BUT IT SHOULD BE NOTICED THAT THEY ARE PHOTOGRAPHED USUALLY FROM THE IGHTS AND ANGLES SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE NATURAL HUMAN EYE. IN SUCH PHOTOGRAPHS THE WOMAN IS SEEN AS A WHOLE AND NOT AS AN EXAGGERATEDLY SEXUAL OBJECT IN CONSEQUENCE FEW WOMEN OBJECT STRONGLY TO THESE PHOTOGRAPHS.
+THESE MAGAZINES ALSO CONTAIN A FEW JOKES AND SIMILAR MATERIAL OF A SEXUAL ORIENTATION. THIS MATERIAL REPRESENTS, HOWEVER, ONLY A PORTION OF THE WHOLE RESPONSIBLE ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS ON OTHER SUBJECTS ARE INCLUDED, REVIEWS OF GENERAL BOOKS AND FILMS, ARTICLES ON SPORT AND FASHION OR ON TRAVEL ARE FREQUENT, HE SAID.
IN THE OTHER GROUP OF MAGAZINES, HOWEVER, VOYEURISTIC, FANTASISED, MASTURBATORY, MALE SEXUAL ACTIVITY IS THE SOLE AREA OF INTEREST, AND THE IDEAL OF SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP IS IGNORED.
+THE DIFFERENCES WITH THE MUCH MORE NORMAL AND WELL ROUNDED, IF HEDONISTIC, ATTITUDE OF THE FIRST GROUP OF MAGAZINES ARE CLEAR: THE SOCIAL DANGERS OF THIS SECOND TYPE OF MATERIAL OBVIOUS. PROSECUTION ACTION AGAINST THE SECOND TYPE IS, THEREFORE, CONSTANT,+ DR HASE SAID.
HE DISCLOSED THAT BETWEEN 100 AND 150 PROSECUTIONS FOR BREACHES OF THE OBJECTIONABLE PUBLICATIONS ORDINANCE WILL TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR. MOST WILL BE FOR EXCESSIVELY EXPLICIT DESCRIPTIONS OF INTERCOURSE, OR OVER-CANDID ADVERTISEMENTS BY PROSTITUTES IN ONE OR TWO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS, THE REMAINDER (ABOUT ONE THIRD) BEING FOR HARDCORE PUBLICATIONS OF VARIOUS SORTS.
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