HARD COPY: The slippery slope of pornography regulations
Baroness Bertin, a conservative member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, has completed her review of the pornography industry. Depictions of strangulation are on the list of sexual tropes that the report suggests should be censored in porn. What English legislators do with the findings and recommendations made within this 215-page report is yet to be seen, but what is clear is that the war on sexual fantasies some may deem “inappropriate” continues apace. This may be a harbinger of substantial and unseen sexual regulations to come, not only for the U.K. and Europe, but for the world. Some will defend such efforts in the name of protecting women from males who might imitate what they see online, others will decry the impulse to police desire. Stay tuned my dear sexual subjects! In the meantime, we’re just going to leave this right here…