COVER ART CENSORSHIP...FILLING THE BRIM

The germand band Scorpions released Virgin Killer under RCA Records label in 1976 but the cover art created souch controversy that they had to create an alternative cover so the reissue was under Polydor, Capitol records.
on 2008, 32 years later, the UK's Internet Watch Foundation(IWF)banned the original cover image on Wikipedia for a while. Can you believe that?-I'm not going to write on this subject because this will turn into a really long post. I have very strong thoughts on this subject- The IWF argued that they wanted to keep children's porn out of sight, and that's ok, but why censor an art cover that only music lovers remember?.
Although guitar player Rudolf Schenker accepted that we're living other times, "We wouldn't release a cover like this today.Infant pornography is terrible. But we where living other times. It wasn't a problem then." After a big controversy and the fact that some text was banned too (it really makes me angry, specially comming from a so-called first world country),last Tuesday they decided to back down on their censorship decision.
Just a little example of what free expression and free press are today

Here's a little background on the original cover art for Virgin Killer
The image was designed by Steffan Böhle, and the girl on the cover is the daughter of Böhle's niece who was photographed by Michael von Gimut.
This was what Rudolf Schenker said on the art cover:
"We didn't actually have the idea. It was the record company. The record company guys were like, 'Even if we have to go to jail, there's no question that we'll release that.' On the song 'Virgin Killer', time is the virgin killer. But then, when we had to do the interviews about it, we said 'Look, listen to the lyrics and then you'll know what we're talking about. We're using this only to get attention. That's what we do.' Even the girl, when we met her fifteen years later, had no problem with the cover. Growing up in Europe, sexuality, of course not with children, was very normal. The lyrics really say it all. Time is the virgin killer. A kid comes into the world very naive, they lose that naiveness and then go into this life losing all of this getting into trouble. That was the basic idea about all of it."