I’ve covered the stupidity of the UK’s new anti-sex laws in past posts here, here and here. When you give unelected bodies censorious powers it’s only going to be matter of time before they use them. As this article makes clear, that time has now come. Two UK pro-dommes – Megara Furie and Mistress R’eal – have been found at fault and forced to withdraw content. When the laws were passed there were multiple articles highlighting how horribly biased they would be in penalizing independent female producers (for example this and this). No surprise then that the first people to be affected are two independent pro-dommes. The UK government is all in favor of successful small businesses, just as long as they’re not run by women producing consensual erotica for others to enjoy.
What I found particularly laughably in the article was that the goverment board also threw out the old chestnut about minors being able to access the material. Have these people never encountered tumblr? Obviously I don’t support kids seeing explicit material, but when it comes to censoring online sources, that horse has long since bolted. In fact not only bolted, but had a happy life frolicking in meadows, died of old age, been turned into glue and is now helping old ladies scrapbook photos of the grandchildren.
Sadly, based on the latest UK election results, it looks like the people who passed this law will be returning to power. Thus proving that while the good may die young, the evil get elected to power and fuck with the rest of us.
The above image is of Megara Furie, the Glasgow based pro-domme penalized under the new laws. If you’d like to session with her then her contact information can be found here.
I know I’m late to comment on this, but I wanted to say that I’m sorry about how the UK election turned out. š It’s not my place to say what governments the people of other countries should choose for themselves, but I can’t, for the life of me, understand why the British did that to themselves.
….but then, Americans voted for Bush TWICE, so there you go.
The problem with the UK election was I think two-fold. Firstly, Labor picked an unappealing leader. Much like the Democrats did with Kerry versus Bush. Not a bad man, just not someone people feel good about voting for. Secondly, having screwed the economy for years, the Conservatives temporarily restored a measure of sanity some months before the election. And typically it seems people don’t vote based on an absolute measure of the last 4-5 years, but on if things are getting better over the last 6 or so months. So screwing things up and then slightly unscrewing them before an election is actually better than not screwing up to start with. Depressing but apparently true.
-paltego