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What are you doing step-relative-just-distant-enough-to-be-legal-under-uk-law?
hey there roommate whom i've known my whole life
friend who's parents moved across the country for new jobs but wanted to finish highschool and moved in with us
hey there my dad's new girlfriend's son
Hilariously, the act they're criminalizing in porn is not actually illegal to do. You can bang your step siblings but you better not film it
Peruse royal family tree for reference
PornHub codes up a solution that just replaces every step-whatever title with a randomly chosen historical instance of some real royal folks who really shouldna been bumpin uglies
UK is so fucking weird. Look guys there is nothing we can do about health and social services, we gotta save money for 'the EcOnOmY' but you know what? How about we save this country by making pprn harder to come by? That should help.
That's all that's left in all the European welfare states. There is no political willpower to do anything except mindlessly ban, restrict and surveill everything.
Norway for example, instead of fixing our worthless public transport, opted instead to enforce an age limit on energy drinks.
The trains only run at half capacity and can only run on time less than 60% of all departures. But hey, now I have to show my ID every time I buy a Red Bull.
How will the nation's step-sisters get out of dryers now?
9/11 but for gooners
CSA mention
Once the law comes into effect, anyone found to posses or publish pornography which shows incest between family members, or sex between step- or foster-relations where one person is pretending to be under-18, will be criminalized
Buried the lede on that pretty damn hard
Well that's a lot more specific than the headline and also like.. really hard to prove. That and why would it just be in one context it's not allowed?
I suspect it's so they can prosecute abusers who film unequivocally bad things, since this removes any room for interpretation or coaching the victims so the abuser can get off on a technicality.
That's my best guess as to why it would be written like that. We might be getting primed by the headline to interpret it uncharitably.
I wonder if this is like when the UK banned any porn with squirting in it, where if you read into it past the headlines it was really just any depictions of female pleasure
No way is that a real thing.
looks online
What the fuck ...
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?
For Brits, it probably takes away the mystique of the royals being a bunch of sister- and cousin-fuckers. Also, think of the children? Isn't that exactly what The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince was doing?
oh no they're going to have to think of a new scenario, after so many years does anyone even remember how?
My stepfather-in-law is a pornographer. It is difficult to get his attention in an erotic scene because he is lost in wonder. We were in a porn theatre together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to come up with a new concept today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'"
This is the wildest comment I’ve read here in a while
It's a (well-executed!) snowclone, the original being
My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… "We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."
Damn I had a feeling but I wanted to believe
The answer is ~€374 million using La Sagrada Familia as the example
What an incredibly silly thing to say, as if there isn't a veritable army of people effectively building and rebuilding cathedrals using historical techniques to this day. Poor ole stepfather been done dirty, now everyone knows how ignorant and bad of a builder he is...
Actual answer: “lol lmao. Porky ain’t paying for that”
The stepfather was staring at the titty angels in the stucco
maybe door dash
This will be th first law in a century that the King officially steps in to kill the legislation
Normally I tell people to step away from the lathe but I actually think you might be the correct custodian for it
How will Albo respond to this one?
Will he let England overtake Australia with its oddly specific seeming porn microgenre legislation or will he find a way to come from behind and backdoor australia's parent country, perhaps with a brand new law against depictions of sodomy? One thing is for certain, I'm volcel and I believe pornographix should be drawn by the consumer then burnt.
This better not include mommy asmr 
There's no way this passes the house of lords
The peerage is the House of Lords, this headline specifically says that the House of Lords passed it.
House of loads
uk finally getting a dub, wish they'd enforce the ban on actual incest though
this is a vote from the house of lords, comrade. they can't very well pass laws against their own parents and spouses! what a heap of scandal!
What is with this place turning into conservatives the second it comes to sex?
I have to imagine it's from years of volcel police jokes reinforcing a sex-negative culture and the complete lack of understanding of feminism or queer theory of most of the userbase.
Literally 1984