Anyone keeping track of the new UK laws on "extreme pornography"

[donkeyfish]

The laws came into effect Febuary this year I think and I deleted my substantial video collection which was very annoying as a lot of the content I had paid for in the past.

Now that a few months have passed does anyone have any updates on these laws? has anyone been summoned to court concerning them? Or does anyone have more specific detail on how the backlash.org site is doing in terms of trying to fight this?

is anyone from the UK still here?

[Alec Anaconda]

Before this law came into effect, A1 (my publishers) had a purge, mainly on book titles and cover images. This was probably not necessary.

If I recall correctly, this legislation applies only to images, but it is prudent to keep well within those boundaries ordained by the authorities.

Technological surveillance has now surpassed that envisioned in “1984”, so it seems unwise to investigate this subject excessively.

I am from the UK, as you can see from my profile.

I have noticed a trend for forum users to give their location as a few letters.
I expect the some are states in the US, but I only recognise a few of the fifty.

You use “asd”, another uses “B”, these mean nothing to me.

Do you reconsider writing a novel?
http://uk.geocities.com/alecanaconda/GetPublished.htm (http://uk.geocities.com/alecanaconda/GetPublished.htm)

[dannyboy123]

hi im glad were finally talking about it,i tried talking about it earlier but no-one answered my thread.im from the UK and im very worried about it and dont know hardly anything about it and im worried that one morning im gonna wake up and hear the police knocking on my door.i dont see why we should have to give up our fetish,whats it got to do with them? they should be more clearer about whats allowed and whats not.so any help on whats going on would be appreciated

[moosh]

This is all just my own opinion and isn't necessarily fact but -

Personally, I think that the whole BDSM scene is far too massive for them to really police this.

Not to mention, the chances of police caring enough about everyday people viewing these types of images to try and find them not very high.

I would expect the emphasis would be on images in the animal and necrophilia groups.

I really resent this law, as I'm sure everyone here does. The criteria for it is far too vague in my opinion for it to be considered a valid law for people to follow.

I think it's a bit hyprocritical anyway, how many politicians are exposed as being in sex "scandals"??

[dannyboy123]

thanks moosh,thats what i was kinda thinking,coz ballbusting isnt really extreme is it but it is sexual violence.also i wanted to ask another question......if this law was such a big thing wouldnt the UK ballbusting sites have been banned or would have known themselves to stop producing this porn,coz theyre still doing it so surely it cant as bad as im thinking.coz they would be the first to know,surely? or are they just as clueless as us and just gonna see where it takes us

[Jedi]

It is illegal to produce ballbusting videos in the UK anyway. Ballbusting involves consenting to actual bodily harm, which UK laws do not allow, hence the Spanner case.
Similarly the practice of S&M / BDSM with most doms is illegal for the same reasons.
Do you see what I'm getting at here?

Let's get realistic here, the long arm of the law has (hopefully) better things to do than chase up some things as trivial as ballbusting.
I think the real targets of the extreme pronography bill will be those producing scenes involving **** and violence on women.

If you've wiped your hard drives then good for you if it helps you sleap better. I personally think that people have worried over this far too much. It's a scenario which as been blown way out of proportion.

[smackMyNuts]

I have noticed a trend for forum users to give their location as a few letters.
I expect the some are states in the US, but I only recognise a few of the fifty.

You use “asd”, another uses “B”, these mean nothing to me.


ASD is the first three letters you type with your left hand on a querty keyboard. I would take this as meaning that he doesn't really want to say where he's from and just filled in nonsense. I think that whoever is from B is probably likewise.

[darkwing]

ASD is the first three letters you type with your left hand on a querty keyboard. I would take this as meaning that he doesn't really want to say where he's from and just filled in nonsense. I think that whoever is from B is probably likewise.

Nice on-line shop. I like it when I can see everything on one pageand not have to click all over to sub-pages to find everything.

But is this the right thread to post this information?

[Alec Anaconda]

I have replaced my “Get Published” page.
You can now find it at

http://www.ebooksbdsm.com/authorguide.htm (http://www.ebooksbdsm.com/authorguide.htm)

Alec Anaconda

[Gibbonator]

It seems as though they've been deliberately vague in defining the law (or at least in their articulation of it to the public). One consequence of this, as we are seeing, is that many people are worrying about their standing with the law but whether or not they should worry is a different kettle of fish. It wouldn't surprise me if this was an intended consequence - to keep the populace 'in check'...

I suspect that Big Brother has probably got more important things to be doing right now (such as secretly installing CCTV cameras in your house etc.) but even so, I wouldn't want to be complacent only to have the pigs come knocking on my door.

I don't really understand it. Someone getting hit in nuts is something they show on You've Been Framed on Saturday night television, but for some reason if it's 'sexual' in nature then it's illegal; what's the difference? And what would they make of folk who frequent the ********** or Penectomy threads?

I wonder if there's anyone in the legal profession who could provide some reliable answers?

[mick_sl8ter]

I bet these laws will never make it in the USA.
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[bull4you]

The old people who are in the power, has no work. They see every thing in gender perspective. feminists feel that, these are encouraging violence on women. first they only want to ban bdsm where woman like to be victim and men dominates. These people see " violence on women" in those videos. of course these dumb people never bother about.. they did with her consent and she like it. But what they want they don't like it.

and banning only bdsm which has women as victim is not possible, so they extended it for men also.

i pray the god that.. these people will get some knowledge and thinking capacity and shed their gender agendas.. after all we are doing it with our consent.. we are enjoying it.. without causing harm to our self or anyone.

suck gender politics... and the people who encourage them.

[mick_sl8ter]

The old people who are in the power, etc....

If you consider the UK a democracy you should deduct that the british like shitty laws. But I consider it a hypocracy, meaning the people who are in power do not represent the people of the UK and they do not have to live according to the shitty laws that they come up with.

If the people in power had to answer to the police, they would not come up with these shitty laws.

Please note: shitty laws are made for the common people.
That is how an undemocratic system works. Consider this during your next 'democratic' elections.