Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from November

16 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by throw310822

22 Comments

nickslaughter02

9 hours ago

Porn in the UK will be banned within the next decade - there are 4 million muslims in the UK (6% of the population) and growing rapidly. Most muslim countries ban all forms of porn.

Yacoby

8 hours ago

Given that the UK has banned this, but as per your numbers 6 percent of the country is Muslim, so it seems that there are other more major factors in this decision than the Islamic religion?

I'm not sure if you were insinuating that this was the cause of this current ban? Or have just posted something tangentially related with no data or logical chain of reasoning to support it?

nothercastle

5 hours ago

In a democratic system it Doesn’t take much to swing the needle on a divisive issue. 6% might be enough if they vote as a unified block

tavavex

7 hours ago

The title fails to capture the absurdity of the situation. It's not even just regular incest, it's people "pretending to be related". The UK is banning acting and pretend play between consenting adults, and putting anyone cursed with this unholy imagery of adults engaging in what they consented to in prison for up to two years.

The fact that a Western country is doing this and there's almost no attention given to it (comment threads are filled with "yeah I personally don't like it, let's ban it and ruin people's lives") is a sign of what's to come, both in the UK and elsewhere.

_345

12 hours ago

It would be really interesting to see if incest goes down after this using now as a baseline...

rasz

9 hours ago

"Step not a mom/sister" titles became popular some time ago.

DANmode

11 hours ago

…how are you measuring?

Also: why?

throw310822

12 hours ago

Especially that between stepson and stepmom, or between stepsiblings. /s

impossiblefork

12 hours ago

The strangulation thing very clearly is harmful, so I think that part is good, maybe the incest stuff is, maybe it isn't.

I hope the ban is well-considered, but a ban on strangulation and choking in pornography is a good idea. Allowing production or sale of media reinforcing something that dangerous would not have been super smart.

exceptione

9 hours ago

Let me introduce you to sports. (table tennis and curling should get a free pass though)

impossiblefork

an hour ago

I don't quite see the danger there.

Even soccer and other dangerous stuff isn't like choking people.

user

8 hours ago

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khelavastr

9 hours ago

But strangulation in cheap thrillers is fine. Such a dishonest law. You can look at the politicians who support this as failures of human beings, and implicate their families for not controlling them better.

baranul

6 hours ago

> Such a dishonest law

Exactly! For the sake of the children (by their logic), it follows to make play-acting of any such kind in movies and plays illegal too. Clearly such violations are happening all the time in other kinds of movies and plays.

There's a huge difference between actually doing such a thing and actually being related, versus pretending, which should be common sense.

Havoc

11 hours ago

And yet first cousin marriage is still both allowed and fairly common in some circles in the UK.

God help you if your pixels aren't the government approved kind though...

yawpitch

12 hours ago

Well now that’s an interesting workaround for keeping the more “personal” videos of the extended Mountbatten-Windsor clan into public view.

NotGMan

12 hours ago

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greggoB

11 hours ago

> they will ban females from the industry.

This just sounda oxymoronic. Overall, hard to know if this comment is intended as satire.

0dayz

12 hours ago

Right, I assume the same advocates will also ban cuckolding since the entire kink is unhealthy relationship?

And I'm also not surprised that stuff like "CBT" isn't included.

user

12 hours ago

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