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Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members
(www.theguardian.com)
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is there an epidemic of step-siblings fucking eachother or something in the UK why would you even need to highlight this & subsequently ban it???????
I like how the amendment calls it step-incest lol
i like how the language is called english but the english themselves are consistently the worst at utilizing it. it's so clearly STEPCEST what is wrong with the heap of lords (besides literally everything about the constitution of the body, it's members, and how they are appointed)
If it's not from the step bro mountains of [joke still under construction, please wear hard hats while scrolling through]
They're like a thousand years old and grew up wrifing like fhis
There isn't an epidemic in real life, but it is very common in pornography to skirt any laws surrounding incest while keeping... the taboo aspect, I guess?
there's some pretty bad incest but its kind of a touchy subject politically bcs its basically exclusively pakistani immigrants who do it on a large scale
I never knew the Windsors were from Pakistan
Cousin marriage is bad whether its the Windsors or pakistanis or east anglians doing it and i never said otherwise
Thats cousins and not step family. I'm not endorsing it, but it is an entirely different issue.
There's just as much, if not more, coercion around arranged cousin marriages than there is in step-sibling intercourse and far more risk to any kids. We all understand that smoking and drinking while pregnant is child abuse, why shouldn't cousin marriage be considered the same way?
Thankfully it's been decreasing in recent years thanks to government initiatives that were rolled out a decade or two ago to cut down on teen pregnancy and incest in the uk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67422918.
I understand the reason for banning cousin marriages, and I do not endorse cousin marriages.
However if your reason is solely that they carry an increased risk risk of genetic disorders in resulting offspring, then I'm sorry I have simply read too many medical textbooks to accept that argument blindly. Should we ban anyone who is a carrier of a genetic disorder from having children? What about anyone with a genetic marker for a disorder? What about geriatric pregnancies, are women who get pregnant at 40 child abusers? What if someone has a robertsonian translocation in their germline, are we gonna sterilise those people?
Cousin marriage isn't great, real incest is bad, neither one justifies or is really related to portrayals of step sisters getting stuck in dryers.
i dont think banning it outright is an answer, but i think it should be absolutely be discouraged as much as possible, we do need to draw some kind of a line between acceptable and unnacceptable sacrifices for the sake of kids wellbeing and the general health of society. Not smoking and drinking for 9 months is an acceptable sacrifice for a kids health, encouraging people through education and social programs to marry one of the millions of people in the uk who isn't a first cousin is an acceptable sacrifice imo, but strapping an armband on someone with a genetic condition and sterilising them obviously isnt an acceptable sacrifice.
The UKs been consistently rolling out programs to discourage young brits becoming pregnant and its been immensely succesful (see spoilered graph)