In a move that made my Vegemite-guzzling arse take an immediate panic-induced shit, J-List have just announced a sweeping shipment ban on all adult products for the Australian market. Everything from onaholes, hentai manga, JAV DVDs (props to all four customers in that area) and even lewd figures.
According to their blog post the move comes from a ‘recommendation’ via DHL Japan who have apparently had a number of J-List’s adult packages rejected by Australian customs.
Honestly, I don’t doubt that they’ve likely had some issues. From experience J-List were typically much less discreet in regards to product descriptions when shipping here, and it certainly doesn’t help that Australia’s recently been cracking down on sex dolls. I mean, they’ve seemingly been targeting ‘child-like’ dolls from China specifically, but I’m guessing at this point J-List ran into a few issues with larger sex toys.
They further go on to quote some very old, obscure regulations from the Australian Border Force website. Just to be clear, the following excerpt has been on there for years now:
Child pornography (any depiction of children in a sexually explicit manner) is illegal.
Publications, films, computer games and any other goods that describe, depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence, terrorist acts or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults are not allowed. This includes bestiality and sexual violence.
I reached out to otonaJP – another Japanese-based retailer – regarding the news, who thankfully confirmed they’ll still be shipping to Australia (and received no such ‘recommendation’ from DHL). So for now this just appears to be an issue with J-List fucking something up along the line?
Still a worrying prospect though. J-List was a major retailer, and it likely took some serious heat to pull this move.
Don’t mind me though, I’ll just be here sweating bullets over the prospect of my blog potentially being forcibly killed off in the future for the crime of living in Australia. A fitting end. Perhaps I could shift over to stinky boring Fleshlights or something. :'(
Slightly on topic, I’ll never forget this classic from a few years back:
This is the peak of my Photoshop skills after six beers, sorry ;__;
“I’ll just be here sweating bullets over the prospect of my blog potentially being forcibly killed off in the future for the crime of living in Australia.”
don’t worry, i’m sure we could start a gofundme to smuggle you to freedom land somehow
Finally… life on the moon!
“Hi, mates! What’s the good wank?”
Isn’t Aussie Land the same place that tried to argue that an ADULT PORN STAR was a child because she had small breast?
LOGIC? WHAT’S THAT?!
looooool yeah, they actually went ahead with it briefly back in the early 2000’s. Adult films featuring women with ‘small breasts’ were banned in an absolutely demented attempt to combat child porn. https://theweek.com/articles/497091/australias-small-breast-ban
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still a thing, except nobody enforces it for obvious reasons.
You’re always welcome here in NZ.
It’s more tempting by the day!
“child exploitation material” what. it’s. a fucking doll
Hate to say it but J-List has fucked up shipping 3 times for me ( Aussie ) so I’ve stopped ordering from them. Their customer service is okay and everything but like I’ve never had any issue with customs and having your normal onaholes come through? It’s been common knowledge for 5+ years now that ABF doesn’t want any loli or child box art pedophile shit coming through but its been like that for ages.
Yeah I’ve been calling BS on that JList post since the ABF screenshot they provided has been there since forever but sadly the rest of the internet is running with Australia bans sex toys or anime or something.
My theory is that in the current air freight climate returning packages is really expensive for DHL and Australia is not worth the risk and relative cost when a certain seller is as subtle as a foghorn about. Most freight services actually have rules against adult material, you can even find one such rule on the japan post website which would apply to all countries including the US. It’s ignored in favor of allowing discretion and for Jlist I guess DHL considered that too costly for Australia.
But I’m not sure how much I good faith I can give. I found it interesting that jlist was the one calling foul considering their own censorious policies and history.
110%. J-List would have gotten a few letters already if ABF was that strict. They haven’t outright banned adult material but have probably worst case scenario sent DHL or J-List a letter advising them not to send through products that display Loli artwork. I think you hit the nail on the head about price too though because I have to pay heaps to have something shipped from them only.
aussies and brits have the same problem… nonces in positions of power banning anything that covers their nonce asses even when they’re unrelated
lol just found out about this ban, did it effect any of the digital material out there?
Atleast Otonajp seems safe..for now lol, Jlist was shit anyway