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mikestabile.bsky.social • 4 days ago

📣 Policing legal pornography means policing adult sexual expression

📣 Policing pornography means policing sexual communities

📣 Policing pornography means policing access to resources and information

📣 Policing pornography means policing sexuality

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lavenderbean.bsky.social•3 hours ago

You can thank British feminists for this. The Christian right here isn't as powerful as it is in America, but our version of feminism is one of the most prudish movements in the democratic world, leading the charge to get all porn banned and generally doing the work of Christian puritans for them.

sootyjared.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don’t know how to fight or combat this, i just have no idea, they won’t listen and I just see no way to make it happen…

lunepusa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Remember! Just because YOUR kink isn't on the list yet, it might be next! Even if it's something as simple as cowgirl, oral, and especially anal!

mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

This morning, a UK Parliamentary report recommended criminal penalties for so much as *owning* a fetish video. It's not just misguided, it's dangerous.

The author, a Baroness in the House of Lords, has declared that the visual depictions of certain sex acts is *damaging to society*

delilahgallo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Cut to: a majority of human art depicting sex, a lot of it kinky

mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

"I'm not saying that people shouldn't watch porn. I'm not saying porn shouldn't exist. I'm not a prude." — Lady Bertin*

*who goes onto define the types of porn she thinks should be illegal: "misogynist" "dangerous" "violent" "degrading"

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mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

She acknowledges that it may all be consensual ... but that's of little importance. Other people might get the wrong idea.

She's positioned personal consensual sexual behavior as dangerous.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q1wx3nzy9o

chadradish.bsky.social•3 days ago

from the same empire that brought you "ban women with small breasts from porn"

mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is, of course, the same reasoning behind sodomy laws, behind Russia's "gay propaganda" laws, behind the Hays Code and book bans.

It's about eliminating representation, it's about criminalizing private acts. It's about justifying discrimination.

Your sexuality isn't a danger to others.

mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is not the first time that the UK government has attempted to criminalize sex acts. In 2014, it passed a law criminalizing the sale of adult content with fisting, caning or face-sitting.

Who got targeted? Sex workers. Queers. Kinksters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30454773

mikestabile.bsky.social•4 days ago

In the US and UK, porn is being used as a scapegoat to enact broad restrictions on sexuality. The laws are vague and enforcement arbitrary.

They use "porn" because they know that people are embarrassed to defend it.

But if we value sexual freedom, it's essential that we do.