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You know, there's a fun observation to be made here: for every perversion you ban, the more niche ones move further up the view list. In essence, short of a complete porn ban (which is their final goal), they're likely to make the problem worse.

In terms of boys learning violence from this kind of porn - surely the online safety act is doing that right? Of course not; that act has failed gloriously and this proposed change evidences that.

The real solution they should be considering is strong messages about "safe, sane, consensual". Stick it up on posters, make it a mandatory banner on porn sites (who would complain, really), even take that shit into schools (it's good practice even for vanilla). The real issue isn't the acts themselves, it's the way we talk about them, or more don't!

Dark fantasies and dark sex acts aren't the problem. Abusive partners are the problem

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.

I am... Rather older than most of you, in all probability. My partner likes being choked; not hard, not actually cutting off air or blood, but the sensation of hands or an arm around their throat. They also like being caned, and spanked; I'm into fairly serious rope bondage (as a rope top) and CNC.

Under British law, a large percentage of the sexual activities that we both enjoy together would be criminal offenses.

For what it's worth, in the 1920s, oral sex was considered shocking to moral sensibilities, perverted, an affront against nature, and grotesquely obscene. I suspect that the view from the year 2100--should humanity survive that long--will see choking in much the same way.

If the argument for the ban is that depiction normalizes it, then there should be a ban on violence in all media, right?

But what if I like being choked? UwU

Is this an admission that we as a species can no longer tell the difference between fantasy and reality?

What's next, banning wrestling and boxing matches? No more war films?

The morality police in the UK strike again. They're slowly turning into Saudi Arabia the longer they keep this up.

The way they define choking would also ban a lot of sucking scenes.

So men don't get choked? Why are these things always gender specific?

I suppose I would file this one under massive sex education failure, if youths are having to learn about sex from porn there's already a problem.

I already don't like that kind of shit, it's an immediate turn-off for me.

But - I also know there's a whole kink around it, and as long as it's consensual.....who tf cares?

Jfc more conservative pearl clutching censorship laws in supposedly developed countries? What a time to be alive.

Yea, this will surely work out.

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What's next? BDSM?

Only porn allowed will be missionary position?

Might be a good idea to say which government when you're posting to world news?

I don’t disagree that it’s troubling how mainstream choking is in modern porn. It’s definitely been a huge shift. There’s nothing against it as a fetish, but it being a fetish with potential harmful consequences suggests that it should be in the same category as BDSM - something which can be problematic unless it’s done as an exercise in trust between partners with full informed consent.

And there have been plenty of seemingly not agenda-led studies which suggest that teen boys and girls are both picking up a lot of what they consider to be “normal” about sex from porn.

And not even talking to each other about it. IIRC, there was one such study which had both boys and girls engaging in a particular behaviour (I forget exactly which, maybe even choking), and neither party actively enjoyed the behaviour, they were just doing it because they thought that’s what you do and therefore what their partner wanted.

But is the solution to ban porn which features choking? Firstly, I don’t see how this could in any way be effective. How would you possibly enforce it? Are police really going to raid people’s homes based on suspicion that they’ve got a nowadays-vanilla porn video on their harddrive? The police literally don’t have enough resources to investigate and prosecute everybody creating and sharing child porn. And now they’re supposed to go after everybody who visits PornHub?

Secondly, we’re basically talking about a de-facto porn ban because, as the consultation itself noted, that describes pretty much all porn made in the last 10-15 years.

I’m not sure what the solution is. I mean, talking about the difference bewteen porn and sex is something that should be part of sex education at school. But I kind of assume it already is? It would be weird if it weren’t in 2025.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to engage with creators themselves? I know that several porn companies used to put disclaimers before their videos saying that there’s a difference between porn sex and real sex and talking about consent. Several BDSM porn producers also have pre and post-shoot interviews with the performers and make sure they talk on camera about safe words & gestures and consent.

But then that’s something that’s probably not going to be terribly effective in any case and which would require absolutely everybody to get on board, which would have been basically impossible back when it was only really studios producing content, and 100% impossible now that OnlyFans etc are the way that most performers make and distribute porn.

I don’t think it’s an easy question to answer, TBH, but I’m pretty sure that “ban all the porn” isn’t the correct solution.

Search: How to do the Heimlich maneuver? YouTube: sorry this video has been deleted for depicting scenes of people choking.

I'll forward any I find to my local MP