LadyConstanze -> RE: Real life slave hunting anyone? (5/15/2009 4:32:52 AM)
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Having grown up in other parts of Europe, the UK doesn't seem to be very liberated, on the other hand I have also lived in the US and compared to the general situation regarding BDSM in the US, the UK can in relation to that look quite liberated... (If you take Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the Netherlands into account, you just think "WTF? Don't they have anything better to do????? I guess it always depends where you are standing, in Italy BDSM is even more underground!") I think the government is not really going out of its way to find BDSM porn, it was more something they did to plactate the general public, in a "Yes, we are on the case" way, from my understanding of the issue, once there is blood involved or it looks like somebody might have lasting injuries, there is a problem, but as Politesub said, a guy was watching violent porn and then killed somebody in a terribly cruel way, the whole country was in uproar, the woman was campaigning against violent porn, they had to do something. I always like to look at the way a country handles prostitution, I don't have a personal interest in it, but I think it is a good indicator, a country that does tell consenting adults what they are allowed to do behind closed doors if there is money involved, shows you a bit about their approach towards sexuality and alternative sexuality. The UK plans to easen up on their "More than 1 woman using the premisses is illegal, solicitation is illegal" (though hardly enforced) by saying women would be safer if they were more allowed in one flat. I can't see the US going easier on their stance.
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