The chief censor's office last year banned more than twice the number of child sexual exploitation publications as a year earlier.
censor … 検閲官
sexual exploitation … 性的搾取
The Office of Film and Literature Classification banned 320 publications in the last financial year. Of those, 281 - or 88 per cent - were banned because of sexual exploitation of children.
financial year … 会計年度
Most were computer images but movie computer files, and DVDs were also included.
While the number of publications the censor's office deals with have dropped, the number of banned publications rose from 159 two years ago to 320 in the last financial year, which ended in June.
Police and Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) referrals were largely the cause of the rise.
Department of Internal Affairs … 内務省
referral … 照会、委託、付託
More recent data from the office shows 13 images of young girls being sexually exploited - referred to the censor's office by police - were banned this week alone.
Chief censor Andrew Jack said it was impossible to tell whether the increase was down to more offending or stronger policing.
be down to … ～に依存している、～の肩にかかっている
policing … 警察活動、治安維持、取り締まり
Among the banned items highlighted in the report were Japanese cartoons with female characters who were highly sexualised and fetishised and either nude or in skimpy school uniforms.
sexualise = sexualize … 性的特徴を付与する
fetishise = fetishize [fétiʃaiz] … 盲目的に崇拝する
skimpy …露出度の高い
A DVD series was banned because it featured "extensive" material that promoted "sexual violence and other violence and cruelty".
Meanwhile, others were allowed because of their artistic merit.
artistic merit … 芸術的価値
The book Lost Girls - which features fairy tale characters Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy meeting as adults and recounting their early sexual experiences including incest and sexual molestation - was allowed into New Zealand with an R18 classification.
recount … 詳しく述べる、物語る
incest … 近親相姦
molestation … 性的いたずら
"The book has been widely acclaimed for its literary and artistic significance, and its call for the freedom of the sexual imagination."
acclaim … 称賛する、高く評価する
A DIA spokeswoman said the department worked with Customs, Police and international agencies in battling child abuse images.
child abuse … 児童虐待
International agencies had noticed a trend over the past five years that child abuse was "increasingly more extreme" and increasingly against children too young to talk.
A Police spokesman said police worked with local and international agencies to investigate and prevent the online sexual exploitation of children. This had led to finding more objectionable material as well as arresting more offenders.
objectionable … 不愉快な、好ましくない、いかがわしい
offender … 犯罪者、違反者
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