• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    At the speed Britain is running backwards on Morality, I expect mandatory covering of table legs in less than a decade.

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      3 hours ago

      Kind of, it’s only choking during sex and publishing it. Which also shouldn’t be governed in my opinion. Porn should be regulated but not specific porn acts. They should worry about thier standard of living.

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    3 hours ago

    We may have insane gun laws here in America, but at least the government understands the value of domestic violence.

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    I’ve had Brexit acquaintances who claimed they had to leave the EU to get rid of silly nonsensical laws.

    Meanwhile in the UK:

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      22 hours ago

      Brexiteers, in my experience, are very much in favour of silly nonsensical laws, just different ones from the UK, like:

      • Demanding Wine be sold in Pints.
      • Laws about what flags you’re allowed to fly.
      • Laws about what language you’re allowed to have private conversations in.
      • Laws about what you are allowed to call things.

      They like making laws, just laws that enforce their worldview on others.

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    on the plus side, maybe all the incest coded porn will get re worked and everyone can stop pretending to be someone’s step-mom all the time.

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      There was an Onion article about this I read a while back. Incest porn got banned, so it turned into Catholic porn and everyone became Sister So-and-So and Father What’s-his-name.

      Porn will find a way, lol. Too bad it was The Onion.

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      Honestly, it’s just lazy at this point. It’s just a regular porn video with nothing happening to indicate any relationship between the actors besides just being apparently pretty good friends. They just slap some stupid title like “Step son fucks her step mom and step sister in the anal squirt” and the guy is obviously like 10 years older than either of the ladies, not to mention the ridiculous logistics of some poor woman having both a stepson and stepdaughter who are also stepsiblings to each other

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    On one hand, maybe we as a society should move past child abuse being played for laughs.

    On the other hand, a ham-fisted government ban is probably not the right way to accomplish that.

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      18 hours ago

      Additionally, the government banning something that it has no business banning just makes us less likely to hate it. The “no pomegranates” approach basically

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        19 hours ago

        Are they acting like an angry forum moderator trying to tidy up their porn sites so they can find their favourite porn more easily?

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            There’s a genuine problem that needs dealing with that this is attempting to address in that lots of women and girls report that sexually inexperienced young men and teenage boys assume they want to be strangled during sex because they’ve learned it from porn, and choke them during sex without asking. Age gating porn hasn’t stopped it, so this ban is the next step.

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                Some people are shit parents and often it’s not even their fault that they’re shit parents (e.g. their parents were shit, too, or socioeconomic factors) and they’ve got no way of knowing they’re shit parents as they go along (e.g. their children don’t have obvious signs of having shit parents when they’re with them and they’re better parents than most other people they know). People do need protecting from other people who had shit parents, and it makes sense for the state to do things to protect people from the shitness of their parents.

                Banning things for everyone (including consenting adults) is certainly not the most technically feasible, effective or targeted solution, though. E.g. if I were the minister tasked with solving the problem, I’d make sure sex ed classes in school covered everything relevant (they already do, but not effectively enough that it sinks in, so maybe I’d commission a report into why), and legislate that porn sites couldn’t promote potentially harmful fetish content without clearly labelling it as such. I’d also not necessarily focus so much on the effects on teenagers, as it’s not like people magically become able to maturely deal with things they were totally unable to the day before when they turn eighteen, and there are risks if people don’t learn moderation and are exposed to the full brunt of everything all at once. Porn blurs the line between fiction and reality because it contains real nudity etc. so it’s understandable that people without any other frame of reference wouldn’t intuit which bits were exaggerated.