Jo

Name: Jo
Age: 21
Occupation: Student
Lives: Cambridge

How would you describe your sexuality?

I'm a sexual submissive, currently enjoying the happiest period in my life as I'm in a 2-year relationship with my loving, dominant partner.

What role has "violent pornography" played in your life?

The ban on violent pornography will affect me in a very negative way. A lot of the videos and pictures of my boyfriend and me on my hard drive (I say "my" hard drive, because I'm more interested in them than my boyfriend is) will become illegal. Pictures that are consensual and personal, pictures that no-one else will ever see. If this legislation gets passed I'll have to spend half my time worrying about whether what I'm legally doing is illegal to photograph.

What do you think of the UK government's proposal to ban "violent pornography"?

Removing women's sexuality and eternally portraying them as the victim isn't going to help their position. It feels like we're going back a hundred years to when women "physically couldn't enjoy sex", and if they did they were deranged.

Surely a better way to improve attitudes towards women would be to strengthen the position of women sex-workers so they can't be taken advantage of, rather than force them underground so they can be abused. Why not start to portray sexual females as empowered individuals using their free choice however they see fit, rather than vulnerable asexual childlike victims?

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britannia amid burning media

Shooting the Messenger

The internet is a convenient scapegoat for society's ills.

The UK government is to legislate how best to imprison potentially many people for viewing content on the internet.

How should governments regulate the details of our personal lives and control individual expression ?

Preserve Individual Freedoms

Backlash campaigns to ensure the right remedies are applied to the right problems.

Whilst doing so we preserve hard won individual rights and liberties.

See no evil.

The government doesn't want you to view certain images. And will send you to prison if you possess them. Even in the privacy of your own home.