So let's wind the clocks back a bit, way back when in 2010, the British parliament proposed a law that would require internet providers to block pornography websites by default, and would require users to contact their provider and request that those sites be unblocked. It is indeed a disturbing universe because you can probably guess what the reasoning behind that was; it was to protect the kids. Now for some personal opinion, porn is a product, just like movies or books or music, it is a media product designed for entertainment; granted a different kind of entertainment, but still entertainment. There's this thing called puberty, and contrary to what fundamentalist religious folk believe, it's real and it has an effect of people, and the effect it has is not only vital to a person's development, but healthy for the person, and everyone's been through it, everyone's had those funny feelings for another person, it's normal. The problem that the busybodies in the government seem to have is that they don't want the poor innocent kids to see this obscene, indecent filth, nether mind that eventually they will want to see it, as a result of all the funky things going on in their brains. This is a very grey area, for obvious reasons, do you protect the poor children or do you let them see this content, not seeing myself as much of a busybody personally, I think this decision is, or should be, up to the parents, parents who, ideally, understand that at some point their baby bird will learn to fly, admittedly not my best metaphor. It's a dilemma I personally don't have a solution for, but I tell you who definitely shouldn't have a solution, that's it, the Government, because in my post about the Investigatory powers bill, I said that they won't take your freedom away entirely, but that they will instead take it away in little bits, it's a slippery slope argument, yes, but it's true; assuming this happened, which it didn't, who in either the government or the service providers would decide what sites to block, obviously Pornhub and Redtube and such sites would be out, but would other video sites with more relaxed content regulation also be blocked, sites like Dailymotion. After that would it be sites like YouTube, because every music video made in the last 10 years has half naked women dancing and being all sexy in it, would that be deemed inappropriate for kids too, would Google be out because you can image search porn, like the [cough cough] pretty [cough cough] image of Faye Reagan I used in this very post. Of course these sites do have content regulation, age restriction and so forth, but if we just want to blanket ban 'porn' sites, the definition of 'porn' being whatever the hell the busybodies want it to be, what is the solution there? And, being frank, the government has no right to govern what people can and can't watch, my stance is hardly controversial on this, if it's over the legal age, and no one's getting hurt in the production, distribution, or consumption processes of this material, where's the problem, because from where I'm sitting, the problem seems to simply be that porn is dirty, which would make you busybodies morons, puritanical morons.
Fast forward a few years and things are no smarter, as when think of the children didn't work, their song changed to think of women and children. At this point the busybodies were trying to ban 'rape porn', and criminalise distribution and position of that material. The word game is a fun one to play, so allow me to play it, rape is a very charged word, for good reason, because it's one of the worst things you can do to a person, but really think about this for a second, it would make sense if this law applied to content that actually depicted a sexual assault or rape, because that shit should be banned, but remember the word game, like my point about who would define porn in the last paragraph, who would define what is and isn't 'rape porn' in this context? This obviously wouldn't apply to just genuine depictions; it would apply to simulated depictions, 2 or more consenting adults role-playing in a safe environment. This, like the ISP porn blocker, is coming from a place of Puritanism, and they're just trying to make it sound sensible; as Cameron himself so retardedly said, "These images normalise sexual violence against women-and are quite simply poisonous to the young people who see them." #triggerwarning here, I can't fucking stand the normalise violence argument, because we live in a society that takes sexual violence very seriously, in fact, thanks to the climate created by modern feminism, the mere accusation is, as we have seen way too many times, enough to ruin someone's life; Rolling stone, Duke Lacrosse, Mattress Girl, and all of the unnamed accuser cases where someone was accused of rape, and despite the accusation turning out to be highly questionable at best and outright fictitious at worst, they became the target of abuse and harassment from the public. People losing their jobs, losing their education, being ostracized by their friends and society in general, people killing themselves, all on the word of one liar, who probably won't face a day of jail time for wasting police time and ruining an innocent person's life. Frankly I find it disgusting that people would then say that sexual violence is 'normal' or 'being normalised'. Mini rant over, but fuck your bullshit Cameron. Curiously, this would have also applied to depictions of Bondage and BDSM, an activity that usually has safe words, you know, so it can be stopped immediately if the person or people involved feel in any way uncomfortable, meaning that when they're getting tied up and spanked and caned and other stuff, they're cool with it, remember my stance from earlier, if no one's getting hurt, where's the problem, and why should the government get to decide that there's a problem.
But those puritans won't be dissuaded so easily. In they swoop with new regulations on what is and isn't allowed in pornography produced in the UK, and like the last attempt to stop the evil porn machine, it seemed to be targeting less typical, more kinky pornography. The list of banned activities is a long list, but here are the highlights; fisting, female ejaculation, penetration by an object associated with violence, and physical and verbal abuse. Let's start with the 2 weirdest, female ejaculation, I'm not going to judge, people can like whatever they want to like, but it seems really odd that female ejaculation was banned and male ejaculation wasn't. Fisting, something the BBFC described as potentially life endangering, to which I have to say, you lot must be some really sick bastards; seriously, what's wrong with you if you think fisting is life endangering, your sex parties must be wilder than any of us can imagine, which would not only signify rampant debauchery, but rampant hypocrisy. Physical and verbal abuse, so, no whipping, slapping, caning, spanking, even if it's consensual, it should probably go without saying that physical restraint is also on this list, so Bondage is 100% out. Verbal abuse, like physical abuse, makes very, very little sense to me, so, no calling people losers, sluts, cucks, whores, the usual porno insults, it's funny how these bans intersect, humiliation is also on this list. But this applies to both of these things, why should it be banned if the people doing it are ok with it, it even specifically says that consent is regardless, so you're banning people from doing something they're ok with because, what? Because reasons? And easily the dumbest, Penetration with any object associated with violence, what the sweet fuck does that even mean, seriously, what does that mean, does that mean no sticking in guns, knives, hand grenades, pieces of Halo cosplay Armour, seriously it means nothing if you're not specific. let's get creative, in a film I once reviewed on this blog, a murderer kills someone by shoving a dildo down her throat and then taping it to her face, so she chokes to death, that's a pretty violent way of using a dildo, so now are dildos banned, because they should be, after all, they're associated with violence. These rules are stupid, very, very stupid, well beyond the point of comical, and what they do is further cement the image that the people making up these laws are just moronic puritanical busybodies, and like the think of the children and think of the women crap they pulled, they must have thought Hyperbole would work, it doesn't, it makes you look unhinged. But again it gets curious, these rules only apply to porn produced in the UK, porn produced elsewhere can still be distributed and viewed here, even if the content breaks these rules, which, when you think about it, makes these rules utterly pointless. In fact, let's have some fun, porn produced over here features tying people up and spanking them and calling them whores, the people making it are cool with it, and in the end they're selling it, making money, and contributing Britain's economy. But now they can't produce that porn here, meaning they either have to move elsewhere to continue making that material, or they're just boned, now that dirty porn money is no longer going into our economy. Being silly is fun, and the government doesn't seem to like fun when it bothers their precious little sensibilities, so maybe they should stop it.
And now, we get to today, and once again, this time under new management, our government is making another push to control and regulate porn. And it seems they really have a hate boner for more fringe sexual tendencies, which is funny because at this point I'm starting to get a bit of a hate boner for them. very much like the attempt to blanket block porn sites, this new proposal would prohibit people from watching 'non-conventional sex acts', just like every other time they've tried this shit, the definition they give is entirely nebulous and completely lacking in any reasoning. But as usual, I can imagine it targets Bondage and BDSM, among other things, I can also imagine this will include gay porn, lesbian porn, interracial porn, porn depicting different sex positions, in fact at this point I can imagine the only porn that's allowed is through a hole in a sheet, purely for the purpose of reproduction, recreational sex is banned from UK porn. That might be a bit too far, but no more than the fucking stupid busybodies who want to control what people do with their personal lives, this is where I really start getting mad, because first they stopped people from making porn that depicted content they didn't like, now they're on their way to passing the Investigatory Powers bill, the most abhorrent surveillance they can get away with short of just putting cameras in everyone's homes. And now they want people to stop watching porn that they don't like, literally, the children argument failed, the women argument failed, the women argument failed again, now they should just give up and be honest, they're a bunch of puritanical pricks who want people to stop doing any kind of hanky panky that they don't personally like. This actually does piss me off, because this is what scares me, how they will chisel away at people's freedom one piece at a time, so as to not draw attention to the fact that they're trying to take away people's freedom. This time they're trying to control what people are allowed to get off to, and taking that control away from the people, where it should be, because they're not fucking children who need mommy state to keep them safe from things that mommy state gets her panties in a bunch about. Honestly, the Investigatory Powers bill is the reason I don't plan on voting Conservative in the future, like the Labour party, it'll just be party I refuse to waste my vote on, because while the Labour party is run by spineless weasels and closeted communists, the Conservative party seems to be run by nosey buggers who want to tell you what you can and can't watch and want to watch what you get up to in your private life.
I would hope that the politics of the world we live in aren't completely fucked, and that there is situation where the people win, but there isn't, America had to choose between a business man with no political experience, and a war monger who only cares about herself and the international and corporate interests that fund her, to the tune of 10s of millions of dollars. UK politics is at this point no better, one of the 2 biggest parties has been in a state of civil war and is almost unelectable, and the other seemed to think that 1984 by George Orwell was a guide on how to govern a society. Let's hope that one of these parties is electable by the next election, that or UKIP has it's shit together and is actually offering something other than independence, which is something the Conservatives should be giving us, but now it just looks like yet another reason for me to not bother voting for them. I think I'm starting to sound like a Libertarian at this point, but I don't think the government should have the power to dictate what people can and can't see, because once again it's a slippery slope, first it's porn, what's next, movies, political propaganda, things that make them look bad, once again, they'll take your freedom away slowly, once they take something, they'll take more, and more, and they cannot be allowed to do that.
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