Definitions and restrictions on pornography vary across jurisdictions. The production, distribution, and possession of pornographic films , photographs, and similar material are activities that are legal in many but not all countries, providing that any specific people featured in the material have consented to being included and are above a certain age. Various other restrictions often apply as well e. The minimum age requirement for performers is most typically 18 years.
This page excludes material considered child pornography or zoophilic pornography. In most cases the legality of child pornography and legality of zoophilic pornography is treated as a separate issue, and it is usually subject to additional, specialized laws. Specialized laws to address the emerging phenomenon of " deep fake " pornographic content became an active subject of law-making and litigation in the s, although fictional and semi-fictional pornography has existed throughout history.
This is a summary table of laws and their enforcement by governments. The subsequent sections contain more detail on each of the jurisdictions. Pasal 32 Article A person who distributes, sells or displays in public an obscene document, drawing or other objects shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than 2 years, a fine of not more than 2,, yen or a petty fine. A person who reproduces, offers for sale, sells, transports, stores, exports , keeps, brings these products into the country or makes them available for others is punished with imprisonment from two years to five years and a judicial fine of up to five thousand days.
Production, distribution, advertisement, export, import, sale, and publication of pornographic materials in environments with children, by any means or form, shall constitute criminal contravention and shall be punishable by imprisonment of up to two years.
Production, import, offering, making available, distribution, broadcasting, use, or possession of child pornography, as well as the conscious creation of access in it, by any means or form, shall be punishable by three to ten years of imprisonment.
