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I understand why they want to, but professionals give and have, consent. This is just kink shaming, honestly.
There's already done fairly aggressive agree verification laws there that were recently enacted, if memory serves me correctly, so now you're telling agree verified adults what they can, or cannot, watch.
I have zero doubt that the actors in the adult films depicting these kinds of scenarios are consenting adults. And while it may not be everyone's kink, it is some people's. If you don't like it, don't watch it. You're an adult. Deal with it.
Making laws so that everyone needs to abide by what you think is acceptable in terms of sexually explicit material, is ridiculous, with the only caveat being that all people involved must be consenting adults (depictions of non-adults is another legal matter entirely, and should continue to not be permitted - this is one of the few exceptions to the rule).
And animals.
That's wrong too.
Because they can't consent. It's also fucking gross but that's secondary.
Excepting dolphins I guess. They're highly intelligent and all kinds of horny so morally it's probably okay to fuck a dolphin though it's very very fucked up.
I think the main thing was that kids are going to watch it, and getting some very odd ideas about what normal boring vanilla shagging looks like... Also, it's mostly men choking women.
Although since it's now physically impossible for children to watch porn, maybe we don't need this any more?
Listen there are no people on this Earth less qualified to tell us what normal sex is like than the people who brought us the Victorian age.
Then, the solution would be to properly educate children about sex and consent.
Which right wingers also don't want to happen...