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Important note about the MiniZine! Please read!
🕑 Added 2019-10-26 03:02:35 +0000 UTCI was thinking about this earlier today as I was printing zines off; I was going to mention it in the previous post but I wanted to make its own post so that hopefully more folks will see it.
I mentioned previously that this minizine contains NSFW content. More specifically, if you're familiar with the Wrut drawings I've posted so far, it contains monsterboinking content, and is fairly explicit on a couple pages.
I'll be packaging the books like regular letters, and I'll also be sealing them in a plastic sleeve, so hopefully no mishaps happen along the way with various postal and customs employees. However, I do not know for sure that this content is technically legal in every country that I'll be mailing to. Japan, for example, restricts uncensored pornography, and I know other countries have similar laws, which may be further complicated by the fact that the smut is happening with, well, monsters, and with gay content.
This is a totally legal book to make in the country I'm in so I didn't really consider this aspect of it. I'd like to think at worst the book would be confiscated, but I expect that most of you would know your own countries' laws better than me.
If you've signed up and you're concerned that this might be a problem where you live and would rather not receive the book after all, please let me know! Hopefully I'm just overthinking this and it won't be an issue for anyone!
I'm very sorry I didn't bring this topic up during the sign up process! Thanks all!
Comments
Kali Yuga
That sucks! i've never had any problems in Canada but i live here, maybe it's different for foreign countries stuff going through Canada...
Reapersun
I don't mind the spam! Thank you for all the info, it's really good to know! I'm much less worried now :))
Sharon Barela
Sorry I keep spamming you here but I also wanted to add that the recipients shouldn’t be held to blame in these cases, the items are typically held for additional import fee payment or else seized altogether but again, these were boxes of items. Japan? I’ve sent 6-8 books at a time, no problem.
Sharon Barela
Problem countries for yaoi have of course been Russia, South America and oddly, Canada! I still have two large boxes stuck in Canada! Gimme my porn back, eh?
Sharon Barela
Letters don’t get bothered with. Just large packages or boxes. I had a box of gay porn held in Moscow for weeks. It was finally released but some begging and pleading was involved on the part of the recipients. Some countries just like to charge huge fees on anything in a box or package for bribery gains I’m told. Especially if it come from the USA. But shipping a single item in a small or legal envelope - even a padded one - will usually get through fine.
Reapersun
Thank you for letting me know, I'm glad to hear it! All I wanna do is make sure I don't get anyone in trouble, so hopefully my tiny weird monster zine is gonna zoom under all the radars~
for what it's worth, for Japan at least, I haven't had them open letters (only packages) and sometimes those packages had technically porn in them that I've never had confiscated... not to say that it never happens but usually on the news if they show off "confiscated illegal porn" it's pe*o stuff not gay stuff
