Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK

mapontosevenths

There must be a line somewhere, and it is reasonable to debate where exactly that line should be. In this case, it feels natural to me that the line for images should be aligned with the line for the act itself. Banning images of things that are not themselves illegal makes little sense to me and feels a bit like someone trying to legislate away otherwise legal behavior just because they personally find it distasteful.

KumaBear

Not judging anyone’s kinks but when there are so many major issues to solve this is what is being focused on? Maybe that’s the point

beaker52

Next, they'll be banning porn depicting sex between ministers and farm animals.

awakeasleep

Good. Our society will surely suffer some sort of degradation from the way incest porn has become the most promoted and “normal” type of porn It went from being the most taboo type imaginable to the first things kids will see when they get a phone and look for adult content.

47282847

I tend to agree with the perspective that this is a display of a desire to “reenact” and process personal and collective/intergenerational traumatic experiences (similar to violence in movies) on the one end, and the desire to repress and deny them on the other hand (position to ban; protection of perpetrator by silencing the victim). It reminds me of a psychology paper about whether BDSM practices are useful to process traumatic experiences or if the downsides prevail. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2024.2... The question is, if we ban such “phantasies”, are we not merely strengthening repression and silencing of trauma, and by that perpetuating it. Or how do we go about sprinkling in a conscious awareness of why the urges exist to go deeper with them without the shame/blame to protect the original pain and misdeeds, rather than just continually repeating them, both as fantasy/role play and in real abuse. I want to additionally mention but not link to the subreddits full of incest fantasy stories (or are they), and a reminder that abuse leads to abuse fantasies in the victim until it is properly processed and integrated. As long as we shame victims additionally for this healthy mechanism of the psyche we will be doomed to repeat it.

Retr0id

It's time more people learnt YKINMKBYKIOK

Xmd5a

>NOT stepdaughter checkmate

nephihaha

A stopped clock is right once a day. This is one thing I agree with for once. This stuff is obviously meant to be a backdoor for online ID though.

FrustratedMonky

LOL. The UK, you doth protest too much.

andy_ppp

It's funny that it's still presumably legal to marry your step sister, not in pretend videos but in real life. And we honestly shouldn't have a problem with that given the disgust around incest presumably comes from the likelihood of genetic defects.

alva

Wonder how they will classify 'cousins' given its unfortunate prevalence in the UK

owenboswarva

This coverage relates to anti-porn amendments supported by peers in the UK House of Lords. That does not mean the amendments have support from the Government or any real chance of making it into law.

superkuh

This is not a pipe.

arewethereyeta

I do 't think porn has anything to do with inbreeding in uk

seydor

What about daddy porn

fiftyacorn

And yet your not allowed to discuss the implications of marriage between cousins in case people become upset

josefritzishere

It is also interested that this topic is less likely to be flagged on HN than posts about Microslop or Voldemort.

RedNifre

Is there some philosophical/ethics work done on the question which fictional crimes, taboo breaks or unethical behavior are okay and which aren't? Iirc Japan takes the extreme position of legalizing all fictional wrongdoings, whereas the west is okay with fictional violence (e.g. murder mysteries), but not okay with some other things. Where to draw the line?

Aboutplants

new Porn Category is about to drop… “cousin twice removed”

stopbulying

Royal intermarriage > Inbreeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_intermarriage#Inbreeding "What if they're cousins instead" Why hasn't God controls for ignorance of blood relation and conception? In its first chapter, the Christian Bible suggests that we are all incestuous descendents of Adam and Eve and their children. "You are all inferior" Is God benevolent if there is accidental conception by incest, and it genetically damns the sinless child and multiple generations of their progeny by design? Anything closer than first cousins risks the health of the child.