Government finally names the day for porn ban

Government finally names the day for porn ban
It's the end of your smut as you knew it

By John Ozimek • Get more from this author

Posted in Law, 26th November 2008 10:38 GMT

Sixty-one days and counting: if your stash contains any material that is or may fall foul of the Government’s new laws on extreme porn, then that is how long you have left to destroy it or otherwise get rid of it. Because, courtesy of Consenting Adult Action Network (CAAN), The Register can reveal today that the law is going live on 26 January 2009.

Sections 62 to 67 of the Criminal Justice Act 2008, passed in May of this year, make it a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in prison to possess material that is both pornographic and extreme.

"Pornographic" is defined as being produced for the purposes of sexual arousal. "Extreme" includes acts which threaten a person’s life, results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals, involves sexual interference with a human corpse, or sex with an animal (dead or alive).

In addition, the picture must be grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character and "a reasonable person" would consider the action depicted to be real.

Opponents of the new law have been expecting a January launch date for some time, but despite repeated requests to the Ministry of Justice had been unable to obtain either an exact launch date or clarification of how the Police and Crown Prosecution Service would be advised to interpret the law.

Clair Lewis, Convenor for CAAN, was therefore very surprised when she rang the Ministry of Justice this week and was informed simply that the date had already been announced, and further information would be forthcoming shortly. She said: "They made it sound as though the decision had been made public ages ago. But we have contacts with every major group working on this issue, so if it had been announced publically, we are pretty sure we would have known. This feels a bit like they were trying to sneak it out on the quiet."

Miss Lewis may have a point: the final commencement date was put out ten days ago in a Statutory Instrument published on November 15 – a Saturday. Police and the Prosecution Service do not yet appear to have had any further information on how the legislation should be applied – despite the fact that when CAAN first raised this issue, the Ministry of Justice assured us that "further information about the offence" would be provided closer to the date of implementation and that they would "seek to give a significantly longer period of notice than two weeks".

"Pornographic" is defined as being produced for the purposes of sexual arousal. "Extreme" includes acts which threaten a person’s life, results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals, involves sexual interference with a human corpse, or sex with an animal (dead or alive).

Steve wrote::lol:

With all the troubles going on in this country they are pursuing a ban on whacking material?

Cal wrote:

Steve wrote::lol:

With all the troubles going on in this country they are pursuing a ban on whacking material?

Jacqui Smith knows what's best for you, Steve. You WILL comply.

Gandalf wrote:Wankers.....oh wait, they're gonna try to ban that next.

Gandalf wrote:Wankers.....oh wait, they're gonna try to ban that next.

Steve wrote:

Gandalf wrote:*******.....oh wait, they're gonna try to ban that next.

A woman at work caught her 17 year old son with his trousers down wanking at the family computer. He has been banned from wanking

Johnny Blaze wrote:Err, what's the problem with banning that exactly?

Johnny Blaze wrote:Oh noes I must get rid of all my beastality and necrophilia porn. (And my necrophilia beastality).




Err, what's the problem with banning that exactly?

IRON NAN wrote:

Steve wrote:

Gandalf wrote:*******.....oh wait, they're gonna try to ban that next.

A woman at work caught her 17 year old son with his trousers down wanking at the family computer. He has been banned from wanking

I don.t want to know how she's enforcing that.

Cal wrote:The laws covers 'simulated' extreme sex. It doesn't have to be real. Even if it's consensual sexual roleplay between adults in which nobody was hurt, nobody was raped, nobody was disembowelled or eviscerated, the government is going to criminalise it.

KKLEIN wrote:

Cal wrote:The laws covers 'simulated' extreme sex. It doesn't have to be real. Even if it's consensual sexual roleplay between adults in which nobody was hurt, nobody was raped, nobody was disembowelled or eviscerated, the government is going to criminalise it.

"Hi, love. I'm just off out to pretend to have sex with a horse. Back by ten"
"I want to pretend like I've just shat all over you, I'm just popping down the newsagent to get some Nutella"

Perfectly normal.

Cal wrote:The laws covers 'simulated' extreme sex. It doesn't have to be real. Even if it's consensual sexual roleplay between adults in which nobody was hurt, nobody was raped, nobody was disembowelled or eviscerated, the government is going to criminalise it.