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Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“We’ve found a lot of videos online, and we’re going to keep watching until you stop making them!”

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a BBC article, so it stands to reason that this is about the UK government.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Wait, that's not a porn site?

[–] thelivefive@startrek.website 37 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Penetration itself can be viewed as an act of violence and the government should probably put everyone who has thought about it on a surveillance list.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Surveil everyone in the country? already done ✅

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[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

I think everyone is missing the point that this is effectively a shodow ban on porn. The Gov knows that sites aren't going to filter specific content for specific regions, it's cheaper and safer to simply stop serving those regions. Yes, a VPN will get around that, but VPNs are probably next on the agenda.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (32 children)

I can't help but feeling as though the exact same pearl clutching wieners are behind this as the growing attempts at overall porn ban, as though restriction of access to the content will somehow cut the legs out from under the already widespread (albeit uncommon) practice.

To wit, people aren't choking each other during sex or risking David Carradine'ing themselves while wanking because of some shit-production porn, they're doing it because it's enjoyable to them (choker and choke-ee). I'm not going to kinkshame except to say that there's no method of getting a head-rush that I'd personally recommend, but based on what sex-choke enjoyers that I know have said, it makes them cum extra-hard. So... there's that, the mega-cums.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think the government should stay out of peoples pants. The issue isn’t the pornography, it’s that children are allowed on the Internet whether there is pornography. More of a parenting and society issue than it is a pornography issue.

I think the larger issue is the fact that kids are given cell phones and laptops and unrestricted access to the Internet at a young age. The problem isn’t what’s on the Internet it’s that you don’t want kids to have access to it. There are other more effective ways at dealing with the problem rather than censorship for everyone.

Maybe a better way to handle these issues is giving minors only access to online libraries and curated educational content until they are 18 or considered an adult. Then you can make your social media profiles and access adult content.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah….so this is why confused dog Tucker expressed his moral outrage at this activity, completely unprompted, to known Nazi Nick Fuentes who is on the record very recently and repeatedly over the years of his wasted youth as a hate mongering whelp and a self-loathing failson, stating that women should have all of their legal and human rights taken away.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In this thread: a lot of chocking

[–] Dijon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Chock full of it!

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