Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 9:30 pm on 21 April 2008.
My Lords, are we not facing the terrible problem of definition? Where you have a definition that says that an extreme pornographic image is an image which is,
"(a) pornographic, and
(b) an extreme image", that is like saying a dog is a dog or a horse is a horse; it gets you absolutely nowhere.
There is a wonderful museum in Paris, the Musée d'Orsay, which is full of the most beautiful pictures. One of them was commissioned by the Turkish ambassador in around 1860. It is a close-up painting of a lady's genitalia, and I believe it is called the Mother of the World—