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What's staged is what's real, according to the new U.K. prohibition on SM porn and other 'extreme' erotica
By
Bill Andriette
Britain's new "extreme-born" ban criminalizes production, sale, and possession of any image produced "for the purpose of sexual arousal" that "is grossly offensive, disgusting, or otherwise of an obscene character" and "portrays, in an explicit and realistic way" any of the following:
-- "an act which threatens a person's life"
-- "serious injury to a person's anus, breasts, or genitals"
-- "sexual interference with a human corpse" or "intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive)"
The key word is "portrays" -- meaning that depictions still cross the legal line even if produced by consenting actors and are wholly make-believe, conjured by computer wizardry, or involve merely lifelike rubber chickens.
| Author Profile: Bill Andriette |
| Bill Andriette is features editor of
The Guide |
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theguide@guidemag.com |
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