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The law broadly defines pornography as "any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual excitement". [40] The law says that "a person shall not produce, traffic in, publish, broadcast, procure, import, export, sell or abet any form of pornography". Breaches of the law are punishable with up to ten years in jail. [43]
Production and distribution of pornography is legal, and regulated by the Law 196/13.05.2003. [40] Child pornography is punishable with up from 1 to 5 years imprisonment, according to the article 374 of the Romanian Penal Code. [41] The status on zoophilic pornography in uncertain, as there no laws that ban or at least, define it.
Iceland's courts heard 20 cases relating to prostitution charges between the advent of the new law and April 2013. Most resulted in convictions, but the penalties are light and the names of some of those found guilty have been kept anonymous. Icelandic police say that a lack of cash and staff prevent them from rigorously enforcing the law. [21]
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In most countries, even those where sex work is legal, sex workers of all kinds feel that they are stigmatized and marginalized and that this prevents them from seeking legal redress for discrimination (e.g., racial discrimination by a strip club owner, dismissal from a teaching position because of involvement in the sex industry), non-payment by a client, assault, or rape.
The new law does not require sites to cut access to users but does say that users will be allowed to sue sites if their information is retained, which would be in violation of the law.
The code is passed under Act no.19 and revised acts have been adopted in principal areas of law, such as the Act on Customs and the Act in Respect of Children. In the last few years, legislation is updated in certain fields of law, such as in banking, communications, corporations and intellectual property rights. [1]