Opinion of new UK porn production regulations

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

Morally against porn, though this is just silly.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I've seen assertions that most pornographic performers are essentially normal people, and I've seen assertions that most pornographic performers are essentially one step up from human trafficking victims. (It's more cut-and-dry with prostitution, an industry that is symbiotic with human trafficking to a degree that is blatantly obvious to anybody paying attention.) I can't speak with any confidence on which assertion has more statistics to back it up but, frankly, even a significant minority of pornographic performers being there out of desperation or due to trafficking or whatever is enough to compromise the whole endeavor, at least within the scope of the way I see the world. Besides, the first sentence of that post isn't really as central to my thinking on the subject as the second sentence, despite being longer.

I haven't given as much thought to the predicament of male pornographic performers as I perhaps should.

And of course people do all sorts of unsavory things for money if they don't have better options, but I think there's a qualitative difference between flipping burgers because you need the money and having sex on camera because you need the money. You may not think there's such a qualitative difference, but as I seem to remember Al saying about designer children (or some similar topic) once, if the difference isn't intuitive for you I doubt I can explain why it is for me. Yes, banning porn would push it underground where it can't be regulated, which is why, in the real world, we probably shouldn't do it. That doesn't lessen my conviction that in an ideal world we absolutely should do it.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

British porn laws?  They're grrrreat!

[Dr. Cynic]

Leave it to Britain to come up with something that will prohibit women from enjoying sex. No female orgasms? Are you goddamn kidding?

[H. Ross Peron]

Queen Victoria lives

[Hatman 🍁]

Horrible, horrible, horrible!

Especially since these regulations will hit "acts from which women more traditionally derive pleasure than men".

Why did the LibDems go along with this?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Why did the LibDems go along with this?

I imagine they barely thought about it. After all, the quango* sets the rules. It's probably some weird civil servant that came up with these regulations, and the rest was all rubber stamped by politicians.

* Not sure if this term is used abroad, but it's the phrase for a "quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation" - essentially a bunch of unelected people given some power over specific areas of interest.