Sue from Scotland
Name: Sue
Age: 43
Lives: Scotland
How would you describe your sexuality?
I am Ms Normal: 43 years of age, three kids (all perfectly normal), healthy long term relationship, good family ties. I live in a small town in Scotland in a neat and tidy house. I pay my taxes and have no criminal record. I am a bisexual submissive with a liking for pain, bondage and control.
What role has "violent pornography" played in your life?
I am a consumer of so called "violent porn".
I have modelled for so called "violent porn" and for mainstream porn.
As a consumer I believe that this type of imagery had a positive effect on my mental health. For most of my early adulthood I believed that I was abnormal thinking the things I did. With the advent of the internet I was made aware that I was not alone in my feelings and that it was perfectly okay to simply be me.
Nowadays, I watch it for ideas and inspiration.
As for the consent issue, in over ten years of viewing imagery I have come across only one incident in thousands where I suspected it was non-consensual. I simply turned it off and walked away.
In respect of modelling, I constantly find myself asking how can anyone say I was exploited? I had fun, I was paid well. Nothing was done that I had not consented to fully.
What do you think of the UK government's proposal to ban "violent pornography"?
A ban on so called "violent pornography" will, in my opinion, do more harm than good. Not only is it likely to criminalize a great number of sane, sensible law abiding people, but it will force the production of imagery underground. And I believe that this situation is likely to lead to many images being produced that are non-consensual.
Female emancipation was about giving women the right to choose, the right to be whoever or whatever they choose to be, and I exercise that right in the images I wish to look at and in the acts I wish to participate in.
I do not feel that the women in the imagery I view are degraded - they are exercising their right to choose what they do and how they lead their lives. And as a model, I did not once feel degraded or abused. I do however, as an adult woman, feel degraded by those who claim to know what's best for me, by those who wish to remove my right to choose, by those who wish to criminalize me for simply being me!
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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 ?
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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.