Comment by Spivak
8 days ago
Banning porn depicting choking "to protect women from violence" is so funny. You could not ask for a better example of moral panic from people that didn't do their research. Choking is a strongly women preferred kink.
8 days ago
Banning porn depicting choking "to protect women from violence" is so funny. You could not ask for a better example of moral panic from people that didn't do their research. Choking is a strongly women preferred kink.
There's also a reported epidemic of women being choked during sex unprovoked, and who certainly don't want it. Unfortunately these laws are being made from things happening in the real world that get traction.
Is the law a good way to stop this? I don't know. The main tool of governance for our elected leaders are laws, and so that's what they do.
I have no reason to believe pornography caused that. If anything, I'm more quick to assume puritan values caused that.
We don't teach people about consent and sex. We tell them stupid things like "don't have sex, it's evil" and then send them off. And then stupid things ensue.
There's not a lot of puritan values going around in the UK. Meanwhile the violence in pornography is very evident.
https://ifas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CLO_1164_TL1_...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2021.1...