## Section 63 - Introduces the offence of possession of extreme pornographic images - extreme is defined for the purposes of the Act as "an act which threatened a person's life; rape; assault by penetration; sexual interference with a corpse; serious injury to a person's private parts; and intercourse or oral sex with an animal, regardless of whether it is living or dead" ## Defences - §64 provides a defence for 'classified' films, but does not provide a defence if the image or series of images has been extracted principally for the purposes of sexual arousal - §65 sets out three general defences that are the same as the defences for the possession of indecent images of children under [[Criminal Justice Act 1988#Section 160]]: - a legitimate reason for possession, or; - that the person had not seen it, did not know, and had no cause to suspect it was an offensive image, or; - that the receiver did not request it, and did not keep it for an unreasonable time - §66 has defences for people who produce these images (presumably for their own enjoyment?), as long as the whole thing was make-believe, and everybody involved was consenting - cf. the [[Jack Harkness test]] - by which I mean: animals, corpses, and children cannot consent. This defence therefore cannot be applied in such cases -