Bondage OK in UK
Last Thursday the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill had its final reading in Parliament and received Royal Assent. One effect of the bill is to criminalize possession of sadistic images. People who have downloaded sexually violent pictures from the Internet will face 3 years in jail. This part of the act is the result of a campaign by the mother of Jane Longhurst, who was strangled to death by a perv addicted to violent porn. I suspect one needs to be sick in the first place to enjoy such images, probably as a reaction to having been sexually abused by one's mother. (Research found that 50% of convicted rapists had been sexually abused by their mothers.) A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice was quick to point out that the new law won't effect "those who sell bondage material legally available in the UK". So, for all you guys in the Ministry of Justice who love getting knotted, here's a poppet from Japan: Youji Muku's Jyo. (If this is a bum steer, Coxsoft Art News will resume in 3 years time.)
posted by Unknown @ 10.5.08
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Does the law cover images of jewish men nailed to crosses?
Hi, Lennard
My first thought on this was that it's a sexist law designed to bar images of women being tortured, and to hell with men. But it's mainly a shift of the old Obscene Publications Act, which criminalized publishers. As most of this sadistic porn on the Internet comes from abroad, it's no longer possible to penalize the publishers. So the new law criminalizes the punters instead. Anything that was permissible under the old law should still be permissible. So guys nailed to crosses are okay. It would be interesting if an artist came up with a naked woman nailed to a cross to test the new law and find out if it really is sexist.
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