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2014/12/03 14:37:32
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
News > UK A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn
Regulations branded 'simply a set of moral judgements'
CHRISTOPHER HOOTON Author Biography Tuesday 02 December 2014
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Pornography produced in the UK was quietly censored today through an amendment to the 2003 Communications Act, and the measures appear to take aim at female pleasure.
The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 requires that video-on-demand (VoD) online porn now adhere to the same guidelines laid out for DVD sex shop-type porn by the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC).
Seemingly arbitrarily deciding what is nice sex and what is not nice sex, the board's ruling on 'content that is not acceptable' (p.23) effectively bans the following acts from being depicted by British pornography producers:
Spanking
Caning
Aggressive whipping
Penetration by any object "associated with violence"
Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of if consensual)
Urolagnia (known as "water sports"
Role-playing as non-adults
Physical restraint
Humiliation
Female ejaculation
Strangulation
Facesitting
Fisting
The final three listed fall under acts the BBFC views as potentially "life-endangering".
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While the measures won't stop people from watching whatever genre of porn they desire, as video shot abroad can still be viewed, they do impose severe restrictions on content created in the UK, and appear to make no distinction between consensual and non-consensual practices between adults.
Femdom porn will be hit particularly hard by the regulations
"There appear to be no rational explanations for most of the R18 rules," Jerry Barnett of the anti-censorship group Sex and Censorship told Vice UK. "They're simply a set of moral judgements designed by people who have struggled endlessly to stop the British people from watching pornography."
More worryingly, the amendment seems to take issue with acts from which women more traditionally derive pleasure than men.
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"The new legislation is absurd and surreal," Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, a dominatrix who produces porn with a feminist theme added to Vice UK. "I mean, why ban facesitting? What's so dangerous about it? It's a harmless activity that most femdom performers, myself included, do fully dressed anyway. Its power is symbolic: woman on top, unattainable."
In a piece for The Independent, award-winning erotic film director Erika Lust said that she believes "we need to rethink what is offensive or dangerous and what is, in fact, normal human nature, and remember that it’s more important to educate than regulate."
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport insists the BBFC's R18 certificate is a "tried and tested" method for protecting children.
"The legislation provides the same level of protection to the online world that exists on the high street in relation to the sale of physical DVDs," a spokesperson told us.
"In a converging media world these provisions must be coherent, and the BBFC classification regime is a tried and tested system of what content is regarded as harmful for minors."
So Dakka, our lovely British government is once more attempting to censor pornography, despite having failed last year.
Better get stockpiling my fellow Brits, soon the time of the prudish shall be upon us....
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2014/12/03 15:11:43
Subject: Re:UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
So... apparently, the women who make British porn can no longer enjoy their work? One of the things banned is female ejactulation... so I guess the women can never achieve climax in the workplace
Sharia Law here you come!!!
2014/12/03 15:52:06
Subject: Re:UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
I think it's related to the actual making of pornographic material. Apparently those acts are dangerous...
You can still view it.
Bit of a bizarre thing for the Government to be pushing through to be honest.
It's almost like our countries have flipped rolls. We left because the Brits were to scandalous and sexual! Now we are basically Rome incarnate as far as sex and depravity goes, and you lot are becoming the prudes!
Strange times these are.
2014/12/03 16:10:28
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Didn't you read the article? No one's coming anywhere!
Exactly what I was thinking.
I wouldn't doubt that the "No female ejaculation" is trying to tie into the "No watersports" thing. Some people see the difference, some people don't...
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2014/12/03 17:00:22
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Didn't you read the article? No one's coming anywhere!
Exactly what I was thinking.
I wouldn't doubt that the "No female ejaculation" is trying to tie into the "No watersports" thing. Some people see the difference, some people don't...
Officially female ejaculation doesn't exist so it's classed as urination by the BBFC.
2014/12/03 17:25:44
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Didn't you read the article? No one's coming anywhere!
Exactly what I was thinking.
I wouldn't doubt that the "No female ejaculation" is trying to tie into the "No watersports" thing. Some people see the difference, some people don't...
Officially female ejaculation doesn't exist so it's classed as urination by the BBFC.
Breotan wrote: I'm pretty sure this is just reaction to 50 Shades of Grey.
Sidenote, during thanksgiving, at the dinner table, my 80 year aunt, my cousin in law where discussing how they can't wait for the movie. I nearly vomitted
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2014/12/03 17:27:16
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Breotan wrote: I'm pretty sure this is just reaction to 50 Shades of Grey.
Sidenote, during thanksgiving, at the dinner table, my 80 year aunt, my cousin in law where discussing how they can't wait for the movie. I nearly vomitted
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
2014/12/03 17:47:04
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
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2014/12/03 18:01:07
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
2014/12/03 18:02:44
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
This is not preventing people from acquiring the stuff, just preventing it being made in the UK.
Prestor Jon wrote: Because children don't have any legal rights until they're adults. A minor is the responsiblity of the parent and has no legal rights except through his/her legal guardian or parent.
2014/12/03 18:05:37
Subject: UK Government attempts to censor porn.... Again....
I wish politics would just stop with this kind of moralising rubbish.
Though I guess they are just trying to cut down the stuff the NSA and other agencies have to look through while they are invading your privacy "because terrorism".
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