L, Slave of Master R
The Futility of Legislating Against Human Nature
L is a Local Government worker who believes that bureaucratic attempts to restrict sexuality and creativity are pointless..
I'm a skilled white collar worker for Local Government in the South East.
I'm also an owned submissive in the BDSM world, and am proud of my life.
Nearly reaching the big four oh, I had known I had a taste for bondage ever
since I was a child. I eventually found the word, "bondage," in my late
teens, and with a little bit of research everything then made sense.
Violent pornography has been very important in defining boundaries and
expanding my own senses. We grow our understanding by adventure, and one
way I did this recently was by visiting an exhibition at the Barbican which
displayed material from around the world and from different periods. The
likes of Robert Mappelthorpe's work was among them. I wouldn't class myself
as a connossieur of violent pornography, but I took the time to examine many
of the displays and allowed them to expand my own horizons before
re-examining myself and determining my own comfort zone.
Violence in many aspects of our culture, not only pornography, is essential
for so many things; without bad, how are we to know good? It is vital to
get angry and express ourselves in the correct environment; without it we
will sterilise our minds as easily as a knife turns a man into a eunuch.
The law will castrate our thinking and, worse still, our communication. It
will restrict our freedoms of expression. These things are part of human
nature and have been since time immemorial. No petty law can ever beat the
force of nature, but it is clear that those in the Ministry of InJustice who
learned this from the Obscene Publications Act have now left, leaving a new
cohort of interns who think they have the ultimate power of being able to
change human nature with a flick of their quill. How pathetic they are!
This law is useless; it has no beneficial purpose to society which is not
already served by others. The wide variety of possible interpretations that
can be fitted to its contents makes it worse then the Obscene Publications
Act. The correspondence I have received from the MoJ is in a form that
indicates that they are cutting and pasting standard paragraphs into
response letters; just like they did with the bill itself, where some parts
end with a comma and others with a semi-colon. This law was not drafted as
a result of careful consideration, but thrown together to achieve a
dictatorial end. The research they are quoting as performed by the REA has
deliberately missed the point of whether violent pornography assists or
prevents violent crime. Coincidental? I don't think so. This reads as the
government simply doing what it wishes, and engineering the available
evidence to achieve its own ends, whether those ends are right for the
population or not.
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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.