Twenty years ago this would have been the premise for a Fry and Laurie sketch.<p>Hugh Laurie wearing a mac and looking embarrassed, enters a newsagent where Stephen Fry is manning the register. Several customers browse. Laurie quietly mumbles that he would like a <i>porn pass</i>, upon which Fry loudly starts enumerating the various categories available (“The new porn categories only just arrived this morning. Now — no no, let me guess! I'm a good judge of character — I think you are looking for an ebony-pass. Am I right?”), to the embarrassment of Laurie who looks around at the other customers anxiously.<p>Hilarity ensues as Fry continues listing ever more embarrassing categories of porn for which a pass presumably exists, and Laurie's character loudly gets his name read back to him as Fry reads the details on his driver's licence for confirmation.<p>Something like that would never happen in real life of course.<p>Strange and worrying that this managed to get turned into legislation in a country like the UK.