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submitted 1 month ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

To anyone celebrating this: you're defending a fucking bad faith law!

Does any of the recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws are just to protect little Jimmy being a "little confused", to protect him from "making life altering decisions"? Did any of the Nazi anti-Jewish laws were only made to stop predatory banking? Fuck no! And fuck you if you think we can just "undo it easily later on: no one wants to be the "pervert politician", no one wants to be smeared by the opposition as "the real misogynist" or a "pervert being occupied with things other than the economy", so no one will do it.

I don't like choking in porn. The problem is a failure of both the lack of sexual education, and not holding platforms accountable for replatforming the likes of Andrew Tate, not some smut.

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