Possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill.

Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.

It follows a review which found depictions of choking were “rife” on mainstream porn sites and had helped normalise the act among young people.

Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.

      • FosterMolasses@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        This is the first thing that sprang to my mind.

        UK government is shifting closer and closer to the Australian model. Bummer.

      • EtherTide@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        The only thing I could find online regarding this was this stackexchange with the accepted answer claiming that there is no legislation, only a ruling from the Australian Classification Board against some media that they said “depicted [young persons] on the bordeline of 18 years old.” I.e. it was a discretionary ruling by a statutory regulator that thought someone looked a bit too much like a child.

        There are some more links on that stackexchange but some are dead and I only skimmed a couple of them so I encourage people to read through themsleves since I was too lazy to sort the situation out for myself; I only found enough to satisfy my curiosity and thought I should leave this comment to add context to a bizarre claim (not blaiming prev commenter, my memory is horrible too and I also found some news articles that were definitely depicting the situation the way they remembered)

        • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          I saw an articles with 2015 date regarding it. I found this from another site as of 2020

          In the process of banning the production, distribution and possession of child Adultography, the government also made it illegal for adults to portray children in these productions. Take special note that we said adults, not women with small breasts.

          Small breasts Adult in Australia has not been banned, however, the actress must not be made to appear to be a child under the age of 18 years.

    • OfCourseNot@fedia.io
      23·
      19 hours ago

      Only porn allowed will be missionary position?

      No. I think it’s a step by step approach, that will go further than that. After only missionary, they’ll make the actors get married before having any sex, all under the blankets and as clothed as possible, no condom or pulling out allowed either, and at the end of the scene it has to show the beautiful baby born nine months after. No gay porn, of course, or trans, interracial, more than to people (man™️ and woman™️)… sex is for procreation! How you dare enjoying it, you sinner!