Oz Uni newspaper removed from shelves over 18 vagina cover

Sydney University student newspaper, Honi Soit, was pulled off the shelves after the controversial cover of the paper featured 18 vaginas.

The publication's editors had initially no plans to censor the cover, but when the publisher of the newspaper - Student Representative Council expressed fears that the cover was against the law and requested that parts of the vaginas should be covered by black bars, they agreed, Sydney Morning Herald reported.

However, when the newspaper was published, it was discovered that the black bars were transparent and barely covered the vaginas.

One of the editors, Hannah Ryan, blamed a printing error and said that the first time she or any of the Honi Soit staff saw the printed covers was when they were available on the stands for the student population.

Ryan said that she was surprised the pictures weren't fully opaque, but she was slightly happy it happened because that was the original plan.

The SRC had quickly ordered all copies of the student newspaper to be taken off from the stands, returned to their offices and locked up.

The Honi Soit editors claimed that the purpose of the cover was to make a stance about body ownership.