Comments on: Scorpions Virgin Killer album cover leads to Wikipedia ban

By: julia harrison

julia harrison — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:47:42 +0000

GONA BE SICK OF IT, i have nude pictures of myself from younger age made by my parents, and now i have some pictures from my kids made on holiday. Is that wrong!!!! THERE ARE SOME SICK POEPLE THAT MAKE THE LAW.

By: George Smith

George Smith — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:59:00 +0000

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By: AdelleShea

AdelleShea — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:11:52 +0000

Nudity is NOT pornography, regardless of age. Sexual content is required. Just because someone, somewhere, sometime now or in the future might be sexually aroused by a picture is NOT cause to ban or censor it. Just for the record, this ‘poor, abused innocent’ is now over forty. Wonder what she thinks, not that it matters. “The Law is the Law.” (Judge Dread) If we keep going, no depiction of anyone under 18 will be allowed in any media (print, photo or video). What a not-so-brave new world.

By: album cover : selry

album cover : selry — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:04:22 +0000

[...] Scorpions Virgin Killer album cover leads to Wikipedia banSix of the UK’s largest ISPs have been blocking access to a Wikipedia entry on The Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer. Why? Because the cover – which features a naked prepubescent girl – is on a child-pornography blacklist compiled by the . [...]

By: Grimnir

Grimnir — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:16:15 +0000

Here is an example of what I mean – in 1980 aged 15yo Annabella Lwin posed nude for Bow Wow Wow’s album cover – see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabella_Lwin

By: Grimnir

Grimnir — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:13 +0000

It is a picture of a nude girl.

There have been many other album covers like this in the past!

Get over it.

The image was used for 2 reasons in my opinion – to highlight the title of the album and to provoke controversy which will lead to more sales. It worked.

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:03:52 +0000

Hi,
anyone that thinks that’s pornography really should get out more. Yes it’s a tasteless picture, but not porn. Nothing pornographic about pictures of nude children, indeed my parents took nude piccies of me as a kid, which i’ve seen, nothing pornographic about them.

By: Pwyll

Pwyll — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:31:09 +0000

actually, the image isn’t child pornography, since it is not pornography, but a nude image. i don’t know how that is in the UK, but in a lot of country’s it’s not illegal to have or to make nude images of children. for example, if i have a girl that gets my baby, i do not go to jail for making a photograph of the baby, when it’s nude. i have nude pictures of myself when i was a kid, and so do my friends. it’s not illegal, it’s not pornography. get a life.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:48:58 +0000

I would never have heard of this if not for the media fuss. Obviously now by attempting to look at the Wiki entry, and then by seeing the image referenced by another media story, I guess I’m on some sort of nonce watchlist now….