I'm annoyed!!
As of January 2009 in the UK it will be made illegal to create or own pictures of various BDSM or fetish related acts such as bloodletting, knife play and anything seen to be causing danger to a person or their genitals thanks to the Criminal Justice and Immigration act 2008.
As much as the theory behind this is sound (to stop violent sex crimes) the reality is that it will push the culture back underground and make it less accessible and so more dangerous for people who are curious. It will result in a lack of resources on how to practice safe fetish and BDSM and is generally a really stupid idea.
It means that many artistic images will now become illegal, and many people who have worked hard to produce such images (with consent of the model) will be unable to reproduce their work or even own copies of it...
Strangely enough this law only applies to still images, so its just fine to produce a 3 hour gore shock fest of a film and sit and watch it???
The bill has been pushed so quietly through the legal system, that they haven't even decided in the degrees of punishment for actually catching someone with the offending material...
I Guess Bizarre Magazine will be half the size soon, and even does that mean some of the SG pics depicting blood will be off limits to us UK residents??
Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!! *annoyed face*
As of January 2009 in the UK it will be made illegal to create or own pictures of various BDSM or fetish related acts such as bloodletting, knife play and anything seen to be causing danger to a person or their genitals thanks to the Criminal Justice and Immigration act 2008.
As much as the theory behind this is sound (to stop violent sex crimes) the reality is that it will push the culture back underground and make it less accessible and so more dangerous for people who are curious. It will result in a lack of resources on how to practice safe fetish and BDSM and is generally a really stupid idea.
It means that many artistic images will now become illegal, and many people who have worked hard to produce such images (with consent of the model) will be unable to reproduce their work or even own copies of it...
Strangely enough this law only applies to still images, so its just fine to produce a 3 hour gore shock fest of a film and sit and watch it???
The bill has been pushed so quietly through the legal system, that they haven't even decided in the degrees of punishment for actually catching someone with the offending material...
I Guess Bizarre Magazine will be half the size soon, and even does that mean some of the SG pics depicting blood will be off limits to us UK residents??
Arrrrrrrrrrrgh!! *annoyed face*
hunkpapa:
Yeah, I've wondered if some of the photos on SG might come under this law too. But even if they do, they won't be made off limits by the site, you'll just have to avoid looking at them, or possibly even at a page with thumbnail versions of them on. which might make avoiding them quite difficult.