Lucky1
How would you describe your sexuality?
Can you imagine growing up knowing that, deep down, you were "different"? When the other girls were getting interested in, nudge nudge, sex. And knowing that actually all that fumbling around meant absolutely nothing to you. It's like talking a different language to those around you.
I would go out of my way to make sure I avoided these situations, I did not want to make myself attractive to the opposite sex.
I didn't want to know.
I was eighteen when I lost my virginity, and even then I thought, so what! Didn't do anything for me.
It was only when I discovered the joys of D/s and BDSM that I truly found my sexuality. Like most I was only dabbling around the edges of what is put under the vast umbrella that is BDSM. A little light bondage, a little bit of spanking, some gentle humiliation.
In other words, the very things that go on in the bedrooms of a typical suburb every night of the week.
What do you think of the UK government's proposal to ban "violent pornography"?
This Goverment wants to pull back the curtains, wants to intrude into what is, after all, my sexuality.
I am a fully functioning member of society. I work and pay my taxes and those go to the very Government trying to tell me that my sexuality is illegal. Well, I have news for this Government. I did not grow into being a masochist, I did not "develop" my sexuality while being fed by the internet. I'm too old. The internet did not exist when I was growing up. It had no influence on my sexuality at all.
You know, sadists have always been sadists and, not surprisingly, masochists have always been masochists. Lady Elizabeth Bathory was one of the biggest criminal sadists in history. Was she influenced by the internet? Hardly, she was born 1560 and died in 1614. I don't think they had broadband in Slovakia at that time.
The Spanish Inquisition didn't do too badly either, and it will be interesting to see if the Catholic Church have to get rid of all the iconography associated with that period. Let's not forget that the current Pope is still technically head of that organisation. The Inquisition has never been officially renounced.
Sadists have always been sadists, masochists have always been masochists, and they are not a creation of the internet.
So I say to this Government, get back to doing the job a Government should do and stop twitching at the curtains. You have no place in my bedroom.
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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.