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| Honit Soit vulva issue back for sale but sealed in plastic | |
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| A Sydney student magazine that featured 18 bare vulvas on its cover has returned to the shelves sealed in plastic packaging after it was removed last week in an attempt to censor the images. | A Sydney student magazine that featured 18 bare vulvas on its cover has returned to the shelves sealed in plastic packaging after it was removed last week in an attempt to censor the images. |
| The edition of Honi Soit, the student magazine of Sydney University, has been allowed back into distribution only after some of the front pages were guillotined off. Others were sealed in plastic envelopes and given the same classification as a pornographic magazines. | The edition of Honi Soit, the student magazine of Sydney University, has been allowed back into distribution only after some of the front pages were guillotined off. Others were sealed in plastic envelopes and given the same classification as a pornographic magazines. |
| The cover was published last week with black blocks placed over parts of the genitalia but was recalled on Saturday after the blocks were deemed too transparent. | The cover was published last week with black blocks placed over parts of the genitalia but was recalled on Saturday after the blocks were deemed too transparent. |
| Sydney University's Student Representative Council has now allowed it to be made available for distribution but it will be hidden under counters and can only be obtained with age identification. | Sydney University's Student Representative Council has now allowed it to be made available for distribution but it will be hidden under counters and can only be obtained with age identification. |
| One of the magazine's editors, Lucy Watson, expressed mixed feelings at the council's decision: "Essentially it's a good thing that the publication is able to be read now, simply because we believe in the content inside and we want people to be able to read it, but it's less brilliant about the censorship." | One of the magazine's editors, Lucy Watson, expressed mixed feelings at the council's decision: "Essentially it's a good thing that the publication is able to be read now, simply because we believe in the content inside and we want people to be able to read it, but it's less brilliant about the censorship." |
| She said the five editors of the magazine were being forced to seal each magazine in plastic by hand and were fitting the process in while studying. They had managed to seal 200 of the batch of 4,000 with a further 200 already guillotined. | She said the five editors of the magazine were being forced to seal each magazine in plastic by hand and were fitting the process in while studying. They had managed to seal 200 of the batch of 4,000 with a further 200 already guillotined. |
| "We honestly didn't really expect that to be an issue, simply because the role of student media is to be controversial in some way," she said. | "We honestly didn't really expect that to be an issue, simply because the role of student media is to be controversial in some way," she said. |
| "We didn't expect that this would be so high, we just thought that it was a student magazine doing what they should be doing." | |
| • The headline on this article was amended because the original referred to vaginas when vulvas were meant. |