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. ‘Gay, unembellished, bi and trans’ DVDs were available (the word ‘porn’ was not acclimatized in the adverts) for prices starting at £8.50. No lesbian, underage, ‘K9’, bareback, brown or blood DVDs were at one's fingertips, but a total of 2,247 DVDs were catalogued and Peacock estimated he made a unobtrusive £70 a week from their sale.
During the case, the jury were directed to a reproductive terms glossary provided to them in order to guide them through the various terms old within the DVDs and to describe the DVD themes. (It is probably a reflection of the case that the jury having bukkake described to them was one the less eventful moments of the trial.)
The Police had argued that the defendant had paid no r to the identity of his buyers — an argument picked apart during the occasion — and the material could, in the words of the 1959 Act, ‘deprave and debase’ those who came into contact with it. In essence, the prosecution sought to scrap that some hapless couple might accidentally purchase a DVD expecting something akin to Brokeback Mountain and might find themselves inadvertently inspired to undertake in a bout of fisting instead.
Source: UK Human Rights Blog (blog)