[News] 2014 News (NO POLITICS)

[Tankred]

Old news. Suppose they just enacted them today.

Uh, is the UK really that Puritanical?

Lolnope.

It's just legislation banning certain sexual acts performed in UK porn as of now. That's all. Nothing else.

[Guy Nacks]

Banning such elementary practices as spanking seems pretty stringent. Do they allow parents to spank their kids? 'cause that's one hell of a double standard if that's the case.

[Chuckman]

The ban is moronic but only applies to filmed pornography produced in the UK.

What the hell is "face sitting"? I thought that was just having a chick sit on your face while you eat her out. Why is that worth banning?

[Guy Nacks]

I would think face-sitting would be pretty self explanatory.

I thought that was just having a chick sit on your face while you eat her out.

Exactly.


Why Britain is banning this in porn is kind of dumb, unless too many people have died from an overdose of cunnilingus leading to asphyxiation....which is also fucking dumb. If you can't breathe and give head at the same time, you're not doing it right.

[Chuckman]

For the same reason that you can imply fellatio in a PG rated kid's movie (Ghostbusters) but if you hint that cunnilingus exists it's an automatic NC-17 rating.

The ultimate root of all restriction on sexual behavior expression of is fear, control, and ownership of female sexual power.

[Xard]

I thought this news came out a while ago? Oh well...

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Bloody stupid in any case. Only good thing about this is to see some hilarious squealing:

"There appear to be no rational explanations for most of the R18 rules," Jerry Barnett of the anti-censorship group Sex and Censorship told Vice UK. "They're simply a set of moral judgements designed by people who have struggled endlessly to stop the British people from watching pornography."

More worryingly, the amendment seems to take issue with acts from which women more traditionally derive pleasure than men.

"The new legislation is absurd and surreal," Itziar Bilbao Urrutia, a dominatrix who produces porn with a feminist theme added to Vice UK. "I mean, why ban facesitting? What's so dangerous about it? It's a harmless activity that most femdom performers, myself included, do fully dressed anyway. Its power is symbolic: woman on top, unattainable."

In a piece for The Independent, award-winning erotic film director Erika Lust said that she believes "we need to rethink what is offensive or dangerous and what is, in fact, normal human nature, and remember that it’s more important to educate than regulate."

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport insists the BBFC's R18 certificate is a "tried and tested" method for protecting children.

"The legislation provides the same level of protection to the online world that exists on the high street in relation to the sale of physical DVDs," a spokesperson told us.

"In a converging media world these provisions must be coherent, and the BBFC classification regime is a tried and tested system of what content is regarded as harmful for minors."

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

Feh-- it's not like there aren't other porn producers. I doubt this is going to cripple anybody.

[Chuckman]

First they came for the face sitters.

[pwhodges]

Do they allow parents to spank their kids? 'cause that's one hell of a double standard if that's the case.

Spanking by parents is allowed in the UK, so long as it does not leave a mark. In Scotland the use of an implement is forbidden.

In any case, what legal system is not riddled with double standards in practice?

[Mr. Tines]

Uh, is the UK really that Puritanical?

Yes.

[pwhodges]

Not as simple as that; the UK is all kinds of mixed up, I'd say. In some ways, there's nowhere I'd rather be (and I've seen a fair range) - but I often think of how much I'd like to escape it, too.

[Mr. Tines]

Related -- Osaka man arrested for dumping a quarter-tonne of porn.

[Chuckman]

Spanking by parents is allowed in the UK, so long as it does not leave a mark. In Scotland the use of an implement is forbidden.

In any case, what legal system is not riddled with double standards in practice?

When my evil is law there will be no double standards.

[NemZ]

split/merged the 'interview' stuff into the existing thread in film and video.

[movieartman]

9 days till 2015 and flight 370 is still missing without a trace.......

[Chuckman]

That's because it crashed in the remote Indian ocean and will never be found.

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

There's very little media uproar about it at present, so we're unlikely to hear about what's happening with regards to the search-- assuming that there's still some work going on. Presumably there is-- I doubt that all efforts have stopped-- but they're surely smaller than the grand ventures that we heard about in the few weeks following the disappearance of the plane, and we're even less likely to hear about them.

[StarShaper7]

I think it's obvious what really happened.

Anyone heard of a little show called Lost?

[soul.assassin]

http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/23/7440739/the-secret-hacker-war-that-will-decide-whether-console-gamers-can

*shakes head* I can only concede that they're really a bunch of windbag dorks compared to those who do the real devastation, snatch-and-grab.

[Rosenakahara]

"Chaos is entertainment" oh good we've got a wannabe hacker joker running around, i think both of the groups are dumb..........but i do approve of the finest actually realizing when hacking goes too far and just being like "yo lizard squad..........cut that shit out, that aint funny"