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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: 0s | source
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mock-possum ◴[04 Nov 25 06:41 UTC] No.45808038[source]▶
Sorry what?? Utterly ridiculous to criminalize a kink. Just flat out stupid. Who supports this??
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erdlet ◴[04 Nov 25 07:24 UTC] No.45808293[source]▶
It's a public health issue. What people - mostly men - see in pornography, they copy and repeat in the bedroom. There should be no normalisation of strangling one's partner. It's dangerous and harmful.
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1. adrian_b ◴[04 Nov 25 09:38 UTC] No.45809062[source]▶
I would like to see some evidence that this is a public health issue.

This means that I want to see statistics with how many British men have strangled their wives/companions/casual encounters, and what percentage of them have previously watched porn featuring choking (and some plausible argumentation that those have strangled their victims because of watching porn and they did not choose to watch such rather unusual porn because they already intended to choke someone).

Without any concrete numbers any such justification is pure BS.

I have watched a lot of porn, but I do not remember ever seeing anything with choking, so I assume that this is a rather niche interest.

Even if this is a restriction that would not affect me directly, I am extremely concerned about this proliferation of laws that punish "crimes of thought", where someone is punished for possession of some kind of information, despite the fact that there exists absolutely no evidence of doing or attempting to do any kind of act against others that would really deserve punishment.

In my opinion, only those who write or vote such laws are criminals who deserve punishment, because only for them it is known with certainty that they have caused harm to other human beings, while against those punished by their laws there exists no evidence of causing harm to others.