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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.

Techdirt reports that the German government, armed with a law that has its origin in more captive content (movies -- the kind shown in theatres) and attempting to apply it to the internet (ebook sales).

Heise.de (German) and Boersenblatt (German) reported on Friday and Thursday that the Jugendschutzbehörde (Youth Protection Authority) has handed down a new ruling which extended Germany's Youth Media Protection Law to include ebooks.

As a result of a lawsuit (legal complaint?) over the German erotica ebook Schlauchgelüste (Pantyhose Cravings), the regulators have decided that ebook retailers in Germany can now only sell adult ebooks between 10 pm and 6 am local time (4 pm and midnight, eastern US).


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  • (Score: 1) by slothroplives on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:11PM

    by slothroplives (5487) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @09:11PM (#200604)

    A bishop running some brothels is not the same as the church running them.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:21AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:21AM (#200832) Journal

    Did you bother to read the links?

    Rome as well as Avignon housed brothels. The following is an extract about Rome under Pope Alexander VI, written by the Pope's own master of ceremonies in 1501:

    There is no longer any crime or shameful act that does not take place in public in Rome and in the house of the pontiff. [...] Who could fail to be horrified by the account of the terrible, monstrous acts of lechery that are committed openly in his house, with no respect for God or man? Rapes and acts of incest are countless, his sons and daughters are utterly depraved, great throngs of courtesans frequent Saint Peter’s Palace, pimps, brothels and whorehouses are to be found everywhere, a most shameful situation!

    Now I suppose those 'great throngs of courtesans' frequenting Saint Peter's Palace could have been tourists but, in 1501, I don't think so.

    The reference to Avignon [wikipedia.org] is because there were several people claiming to be the true Pope - but both catholic centers had similar problems with sexual activity, and each supported and protected 'courtesans' inside the church grounds. Now where I live, that is enough to result in a charge of either causing or inciting prostitution for gain, or controlling prostitution for gain [...] .