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I'm just dropping in here after 10 hours after reading literally 3 comments to say lol this seems like a weird ass struggle session where "reactionaries are against kink" but like uhhhh youse guys, the porn industry is profit driven and capitalist controlled and what it chooses to depict and the frequency of it isn't "kink" and it seems like people are weirdly defending what's widely seen, in any other context, to be a predatory industry that needs extreme reform if not outright abolition (as it exists under capitalism), as I've frequently seen it spoken of due to its inherent, abhorrent exploitative nature, because they see it as like some kind of attack on "kink" (spoken of as some sort of amorphous concept)

what the fuck's wrong with y'all, dick cheney died today go fucking celebrate or something, christ

Guys, an evil Bougieoise state having a moral panic about a sex kink to appease it's rabidly reactionary honkey population is actually good thing!! :D

A non-zero amount of women get choked to death in the UK each year, and asphyxiation tends to cause brain damage. I think this might be a good move to prevent normalizing dangerous behavior.

debates about cowboy movies depicting hangings in :countdown:

Surely there's a way to protect children and teenagers from being exposed to such content that doesn't involve such overreaching bans and surveillance. I'm all for protecting the kids and impressionable teens and against violence towards women, but straight up bans and online IDs seem counterproductive.

Never have understood why sexual violence but pretend was an ok kink tbh

Damn, talking about kink really brings the reactionaries out of the woodwork. What consenting adults do in their spare time is their own business.

Obviously the UK is just doing this out of puritanism. If they wanted to help folks be safer, they'd run PSAs or other educational material.

Edit: I suppose this is good if applied to the porn industry, but as per usual I imagine this mostly gets weaponized against vulnerable people.

if it wasnt coming out of terf island id probably care more

Probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but rare Keir Starmer W.

Unfortunately this is vaguely defensible even if the overall british policy on the internet & prostitution etc is awful

1. Sex work is coercive sex i.e. rape

2. Advertising everyone & their grandma to choke someone out for quick thrills and lightheadedness is VERY DANGEROUS does not even distinguish between air and blood choke etc. People are way too cavalier about regularly air choking even if it is "safer" than blood choking, you need training on how to do that stuff or you can crush or bruise somebody's windpipe

Not replying to any pro-rape comments, thx

Good. The industry is really dangerous for actors and unsafe practices in workplaces need to be regulated. I guess this is one of the things Hexbear doesn't agree with the CPC

Unlike police strangulating antigenocide protesters?