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Possession of porn featuring strangling to become a crime in the UK

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39 points GaryBluto | 1 comments | 04 Nov 25 00:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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eqvinox ◴[04 Nov 25 02:59 UTC] No.45807023[source]▶
Ok, so it can cause some brain damage. That's not good.

But does it cause more damage than smoking? Alcohol? Cannabis in young people?

We give people the right to exercise their own judgement in getting hurt for pleasure on those, so if the argument is that this one is not OK it better be an order of magnitude worse than the recreational drugs.

(I guess there's a distinction between the act and a recording of it, but last I checked smoking and alcohol are still legal in media for adults.)

Ed.: the act is apparently illegal too, "Due to these dangers, non-fatal strangulation and non-fatal suffocation were made a criminal offence as part of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021".

And it's really... odd... how the entire article is written as if the practice is solely performed by men on women. (Even though that might be the prevailing pattern, this kind of 'condensing down' is ultimately sexist erasure.)

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GaryBluto ◴[04 Nov 25 03:20 UTC] No.45807136[source]▶
We even count domestic violence against men under the umbrella of "violence against women and girls" - men don't matter here.

It's unsurprising. GB has an unholy trinity of excuses for authoritarian laws:

1. "Think of the women and girls!"

2. "Think of the children!"

3. "This is a sacrifice we have to make to stop terrorism!" (which has taken a backseat to the first two)

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1. goobatrooba ◴[04 Nov 25 06:37 UTC] No.45808012[source]▶
Just reacting to your first sentence: as a man I find it understandable that the protective laws are focused on protecting women and children as it's a simple fact of our reality that the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men, and that women and children have less physical ability to defend themselves. Yes I also want men protected (though that means mostly again from other men) but as a societal aim the women and children part clearly is a higher priority and need.