• tomiant@piefed.social
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    44 minutes ago

    Every few years politicians throw a Victorian fit and demand to cover up flag poles or some shit

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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    See, incest is what they hit on Steam, too.

    I don’t get it, despite finding this to be pretty disgusting myself, with all the horrible things happening they focus on fantasy while pretending reality is not so much more vile.

  • adam_y@lemmy.world
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    The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

    I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

    For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can’t. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

    Also, and here’s where it gets fun…

    Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

    The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

    Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

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      Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

      Be even worse in a few years when the paltry votes they scrounged up with this move are long forgotten and the law continues to punish and hurt people for literally no justifiable reason.

      • adam_y@lemmy.world
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        I guarantee we are but months away from a senior labour politician resigning because they are found to have incest porn on one of their devices.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    Stop having mixed families, then. You can’t stop sexual development from shaping itself around the environment its in. Gonna ban bdsm as well? Fury porn? Trans porn? Anal? Whatever other sexual adaptations your fucked up culture results in? Probably not, considering their british. Fucking asshats. Your culture is the cause and repressing it just does more damage. But hey, maybe the Brits are particularly sensitive to incest given their aristocrats history with it.

  • MML@sh.itjust.works
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    The Ministry of Justice said that possessing and publishing porn showing incest between family members and sex between step or foster relatives where one person pretends to be under-18 would be a crime.

    Slippery slope and all that but I guess this specifically applies to someone pretending to be underage, I’m pretty sure that’s already illegal in the US as is.

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      It’s also illegal in Australia… but in practise the “appearance” of being underage is very dubious and destructive.

      According to the law, all women with a certain breast size are pretending to be minors.

  • osanna@lemmy.vg
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    there are countless thousands being massacred around the world, there are people starving to death, there are soooo many problems, and this is what we’re focusing on? JFC. Fuck you starmer

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      its a distraction from internal/foreign problems. it always was, its either this or anti-trans legislation.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    so now I can fight back against those limey bastards by responding with incest porn?

    is this like the 1989 tiananmen square hack for the Chinese?

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
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    That’s about par for the course.

    So far, the current UK government seems to realise they’ve lost their voters; thus they’re trying to appeal to the opposition’s voters.

    The trouble is, no-one really wants censorship laws save for small (but vocal) pockets religious nuts masquerading as feminists.

    We’ve normalised “if you are against x, you are a vile monster” kind of thinking; and thus we are now facing sweeping censorship.

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    Serious question: how can anything step related be incest? I thought an incestuous relationship required blood relation.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Incest is strictly about blood relations. The step-sibling / step-child porn genre is shorthand for fantasies about getting it on within the cohabitative family or close neighborhood. While there have been some movies that have explored actual incest (porn or otherwise), usually blood incest is regarded as a much more serious matter.

      IRL, relationships between steps are verboten not because of the problems with breeding risks but because of how it complicates familial dynamics. It’s the same reason fraternization within military units or within work groups is restricted, or at least frowned upon.

      Really, we’re still expected to ride on a raid to another tribal settlement and kidnap one of their coming-of-age womenfolk the way Hades abducted Persephone¹ Modern alternatives such as singles bars and mixing parties continue to prove wanting.

      ¹ According to the late Hellenic mythology – Persephone is queen of the underworld before Hades was ever around, and her abduction is more about pissing off Ceres and justifying why she’s sad every six months so we have winter.