Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/pornography-depicting-strangulation-to-become-criminal-offence-in-the-uk
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Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/03/pornography-depicting-strangulation-to-become-criminal-offence-in-the-uk
Posted by do_or_pie
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Clamping down on porn sites yet still doing nothing about the easily accessible gore sites with beheadings, self harm and murder
(Exceedingly) rare Labour W. This trend is getting women killed.
Censorship such as this will just redirect people towards the darker sides of the internet where it’s more dangerous and will likely expose even more harsh material.
So the UK gov will have a team watching porn checking what’s “not good”? Is this a scapegoat for society problems? I mean, from their last move obviously the problem with the youth was on the free access to porn. I guess that one is solved now.
Maybe they will turn things around and only allow access to some content/websites.
> Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking will become a criminal offence under amendments to the Crime and Policing bill tabled in parliament on Monday.
> In a separate amendment, victims of intimate image abuse will also have longer to come forward, with the time limit to prosecute extended from six months to three years.
I mean, you can’t be against strengthening laws on violence against men and women. Good work.
Edit: Looks like a few stranglers are well miffed, oops.
And yet murder, violence, torture and more are prime time entertainment.
Just let people enjoy their kinks FFS.
All this does is either 1) push people to buy VPNs to access sites Non UK where it will still be available OR 2) push the content onto totally unregulated platforms and sharing/messaging sites/apps.
If the material is produced in a studio between consenting adults, im not sure what the issue is tbh.
Well at least Brazilian fart fetish porn isn’t outlawed.
If labour were half at good as managing the budget as they were at policing wanking we’d all be doing alright.
Sort of related but these laws make it super dubious to work in ai in the uk because how are we supposed to verify every video in a commercial , legally sourced dataset of a million videos is compliant with the increasingly long and silly list of video subjects its illegal to posess, how can you even make a classifier to check if doing so also breaches the law, its not like its the kind of content there exists robust filters for. Nanny state hell i swear.
Seriously? What’s with all this policing of consensual sexual activity?
You just know that Keir Starmer’s missus is left dissatisfied in bed.
Article references an “independent” review of pornography conducted by a Conservative party House of Lords peer on behalf of Rishi Sunak’s Tory government.
Objectively not “independent” and another example of naked corruption laundered by the news media.
So, deep throating? Is that strangulation? What about putting your hand on a woman’s throat?
If both of those are illegal, porn is illegal.
I think there’s a balance between personal freedoms and preventing actual harm.
Placing a hand on the neck where a person breath isn’t moderately impacted isn’t strangulation but the simulation may be at risk of being caught up by this act.
Strangulation to the point where oxygen levels drop in the blood, and eyes pop is entirely different.
The government shouldn’t be banning people simulating the act.
Why haven’t we banned war yet? Why hasn’t someone thought of the children?????
“Possessing or publishing porn featuring choking will become a criminal offence under amendments to the Crime and Policing bill tabled in parliament on Monday.”
I don’t like this kind of content at all and find the sexual appeal of choking baffling but this is still a bizarre law that regulates the content of speech based not on the consent of those involved in its creation or anything else but a theory that speech may lead people to do bad things.
“Research shows strangulation is never a safe practice, despite a widespread belief it can be performed safely. Though it often leaves no visible injury, oxygen deprivation, even for very short moments, causes changes to the fragile structures of the brain.”
This is likely wrong given the lack evidence for neurocognitive injury among BJJ practitioners and the inability to distinguish choking and concussions in domestic violence survivors.
Even if true should we ban all depictions of lethal violence using knives, guns or explosives on this account?
What a waste of police time and money for everyone involved, american sites should simply start blocking British users given this clearly would violate the 1st amendment over here.
This is already potentially illegal under the existing extreme porn legislation, which is only ever in practice used for beastiality and prosecutions are rare. Seems like another law that will be barely enforced, I can’t imagine police are going to be kicking doors in and seizing devices for this so it will just be if they happen to search someone’s phone for something else and come across it probably.
This is a slippery slope, where will they stop? A*al? Spanking? Whips? Domination? I can bet you a large percentage of young adults have homemade porn on their phone or on old devices featuring themselves. What if someone gets their device seized falsely and forgets that they have a video of themselves and a consenting partner making a porn video where one of them gets choked for 2 seconds? Will they be placed on a sex offenders register?
To me this just seems like an attack on the public and a way to put people on registers and control people. What happens when the government has AI that can scan everyone’s data and locate devices/people who have these “extreme p*rnography videos” ?
What about movies like saw that show extreme torture? What about documentary’s that have violence in them?
This isn’t good.
Remember when people said things would be better with Labour in power?
Can’t have shit in UK, SMH.
I thought, maybe it talks about fatal cases, in which situation, fair enough, understandable, but no, even kinky shit not allowed anymore.
Not all of it is bad though, they extended the length of time victims of certain abuse have to report these, so here, no complaints.
But again, the argument “but children” is brought up. Yes, two consenting adults making a video is somehow bad.
So, when do we ban mma and wrestling?
Extemely hardlining on porn sites. Pubs shutting, beer unafforadable. Football unaffordable to go to and watch on tv. And you wonder why middleagwd men are angrily painting roundabouts all day
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I’m curious to see how mainstream porn sites will abide by this. There are tons of porn videos which briefly feature choking so are they expected to watch all of them to see if there’s any in there?
When I went through my man slut period in the late 2010s I couldn’t believe the amount of women who asked me to choke them. I was like “no, the whole possibility of accidentally killing you thing isn’t really a turn on”.
Good time to do it after making everyone use a vpn lol not even gonna be properly trackable
Why is the solution to literally every problem in this country either to increase mass surveillance and data collection or ban something? Christ’s sake.
I mean….. I don’t think there is a price of media I can’t get on the internet. Even if I did not use a VPN I could still access the content I ‘want’
I feel this is just being used in future for even more puritanical ideas. I hate this slippery slope fallacy but these types of ‘bans’ just allow future ones to be passed more easily.
One performer putting their hand around the throat of the other performer is a standard manoeuvre in so many mainstream porn vids. And not just cis sex with a man topping. Femdom, LGBT and mutually “rough” sex can all have this kind of element.
Is possessing that kind of material becoming a criminal offence?
Essentially if you view some mainstream porn on the front page of Pornhub and the police ever have a reason to search your phone you’re getting a sex related conviction and ending up on the register?
I’m not arsed about it but a surprising amount of women seem to be… maybe its the ones I attract?
I wish they’d ban porn with ‘step’ in the title. Not because I want the content gone. I’d just like to be able to crack one off without the taint of implied incest.
What the fuck is this shit? Seriously, how is this kinda of puritanical crap anyone’s focus?
This would be the first step to limiting everything BDSM related, it’s a bit of a leap from one to the other.
Remember the rhetoric when people were calling to ban computer games because it was violent.
Making it a criminal offence is a serious leap