| Government Killjoys - No Kinky Sex for our Tony |
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| Contributed by Rob | |
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It seems that, once again, our Thought Police and Nanny State are working together to be kill joys, and worse than that to criminalise consenting adults who engage in behaviour that they (or the Right Wing tabloid press) don’t like.
The recent proposals, which threaten to imprison people who choose to view so-called "extreme pornography" pictures of bondage, violent or kinky sex, even when the participants are consenting actors, are another example of this government’s desire to infringe personal freedoms and control what we can or cannot see or do. To make it worse, their "consultation" appears to be wholly rigged to obtain the responses they want, for example with questions like "In the absence of conclusive research results as to its possible negative effects, do you think that there is some pornographic material which is so degrading, violent or aberrant that it should not be tolerated?" So they admit that there is no evidence, yet they then load the question in a way that practically forces respondents to say "well, yes, I suppose there is", thus justifying the Home Office's position! I should, at this point, remark that I do have somewhat of a vested interest since me and the mrs do take a few snaps (know what I mean? Nudge nudge wink wink), however the government’s proposals are so broad and ill-defined that were we to view the pictures afterwards we could conceivably be arrested and jailed! The reasoning (or should that be "justification") behind these proposals was the tragic murder of Jane Longhurst and the claims by Graham Coutts that it was the images he'd viewed that made him do it, but this sounds more like someone attempting to find a scape-goat for exculpation than a real reason. There have been many claims over the years that extreme TV or video games etc "make" people commit crimes, but there has never been anything approaching conclusive proof of these claims (something which the Home |