Extreme Porn

Two interesting articles appeared in yesterdays Independent newspaper here and here. They are both on the same subject, i.e the upcoming legislation on the possession of offensive images but both are on opposite sides of the coin.

Personally, I fully agree with Jerome Taylor who has, previously looked at the way BDSM is portrayed in the UK media. He seems to be quite in synch with the way most people within the BDSM and fetish scene think whilst Deborah Orr would seem to be a mouthpiece for the moral majority and Christian Right!

Her argument that we already have laws in place that restrict behaviour in BDSM, whilst correct, seem to be that they are fit and proper laws and completely disregard the work done by Spanner over many years to get the laws overturned. The UK has some of the most draconian laws in place that relate to consensual sexual behaviour and the new laws coming in are, sadly, another set of badly written statutes that were done with emotion rather than logic.

I, with many others, now wonder if our own personal collection of porn is legal or not and I suspect a lot of disk formatting will be going on over the next few weeks.