I couldn’t miss this headline on Galaxus.
I can fully understand banning the usual sick stuff: kids, animals, non-consentual violence, excrement. But I do wonder if these new laws are going too far? Not to mention, it may criminalise previously legal content and collections some people may possess.
And BSDM will go underground (pardon the pun).
Sorry Brits, it’s back to meat and 3 veg I’m afraid…
https://www.galaxus.ch/en/page/uk-filming-perverse-sexual-acts-can-lead-to-prison-44369
Is Game of Thrones still legal?
Mate, I’m even worried about Star Wars … Vader definitely had a boner with every asphixiation.
Shouldn’t the the kids thing already be covered by child pornography laws?
Again, I think we run into the ‘permissive society’ argument. I think my initial reaction is “why regulate this, if it is done by consenting adults and viewed by consenting adults why not live and let live”.
But I can also see the argument: “why create this stuff? does it really enrich and make society better? might we not be normalizing acts and behaviour that would have been shocking a few decades ago and therefore contributing to an erosion of moral standards and behaviour towards others?”
Maybe it could make sense to ban it. Maybe this is just trying to turn back the clock? Do we also try to prevent sex outside marriage? Get people to dress up ‘properly’ in public and stop wearing ‘athleisure’.
We could go back to the Victorian era, but even then, there was prostitution and pornography.
And the hero chasing his sister…totally illegal 
They’re overregulating the wrong things. Instead, they should be laser-focused on two of the greatest potential threats to our children: social media and AI. Both industries, backed by powerful lobbying interests, are operating with minimal safeguards or oversight.
I’d argue they’re causing far more harm to society than some kinky porn.
American Pie and similar US films like Animal House now illegal
LOL
I wonder… how will it effect movies like “Bilitis” from David Hamilton, or Photos from famous photographers like Sally Mann?
Should they be verboten?
I mean that there is artwork out there that would have the warriors of higher priss in convulsions, so where does art end and porn beginn?
Fantasy and deviance are part of human nature, and expression of imagination and an outlet for emotion. And will it soon extend to literature? Very slippery slope IMHO.
Perhaps even more so than today, Victorians had not so many pesky laws and a god-complex in place. Child prostitution was common and nobody batted an eyelid, shows in theaters routinely had naked children running around and any kink or perversion could be had for the right amount of money. Even Jameson of the distillery in-famously bought a child during an expedition in Africa and had “paid” cannibals tear her to pieces for the BBQ.
…Victorians would have pointed and laughed at the Epstein files.
