Black market
Related: underground - marketing
Definition
The black market or underground market is the part of economic activity involving illegal dealings, typically the buying and selling of merchandise or services (for example sexual services in many countries) illegally. The goods may be inherently illegal (e.g. weapons or illegal drugs); the merchandise may be stolen; or the merchandise may be otherwise legal goods sold illicitly to avoid tax payments or licensing requirements, such as cigarettes or unregistered firearms. It is so called because "black economy" or "black market" affairs are conducted outside the law, and so are necessarily conducted "in the dark", out of the sight of the law.Black markets develop when the state places restrictions on the production or provision of goods and services. These markets prosper, then, when state restrictions are heavy, such as during a period of prohibition, price controls and/or rationing. However, black markets are currently present in any known economy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black market
The Black Market for Sex Videos
The Black Market for Sex Videos in Britain - or Why Obscenity Legislation is the Pornographer’s Best Friend
1996, shortly before the Tories fell from power, Home Office Minister Tom Sackville advised the British Board of Film Classification that “the strictness of the R18 guidelines has led to a flourishing black market which could only be contained if customers were induced to patronise licensed premises by the introduction of rather more explicit sex videos than had so far been legally available.”1 To this end, the BBFC liberalised its guidelines for the R18 category and permitted the distribution to licensed sex shops of what can only be called “medium core” tapes - hard core softened by, generally, the removal of close-ups and ejaculation.
David McGillivray has written about pornography since 1966. He is the author of Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-1981.
Copyright © 1999 by David McGillivray
source: http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arenblac.htm [Oct 2004]
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