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I've just posted another thousand images to BME's public galleries today (tomorrow is going to be the members' update). Thank you to all the contributors, and to Urea and his girlfriend (in Brasil) for the cover shot of them play pierced together.
A number of people have sent me warnings about the UK mulling a ban on “violent porn“, after a woman was killed by a man obsessed by sadistic pornography. Some quotes from the BBC article:
The aim is for a new offence of possessing violent and abusive pornography, which could be punishable by up to three years in prison, Home Officer Minister Paul Goggins told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Mr Goggins said such images were "extremely offensive to the vast majority" and had no place in society. "These forms of violent and abusive pornography go far beyond what we allow to be shown in films or even sold in licensed sex shops in the UK, so they should not be available online either.""There is a recognition, even in the proposals, that 60 years of research into media effects shows no conclusive evidence that violent images cause violent acts, so I think that the very idea that we need to ban it doesn't hold water," [Dr Chris Evans, founder of a group called Internet Freedom] said. "But I think the serious problem with it is the assumption that ordinary people cannot be trusted to make up their own minds about what they read, watch or see."
The worry that I have, as is mirrored by many others, is that BME would somehow get lumped in as “violent or abusive pornography” as well, which is ridiculous and totally incorrect. Everything on BME is consensual and makes the people in the photos happy. There's no paid models on BME being beaten or put in pain simply because they're being paid, and the acts in the photos would have happened whether or not a camera was there documenting it.
Maybe it's too fine a point for outsiders to understand, but I'm much more concerned with consent than whether something is “violent” or not. The type of pornography that one might be able to link with real world violence (and I think the link is dubious) is that which involves the subjugation of others — rape porn, degradation of women, and so on…
Even in mainstream porn you'll see violent throat-rape, women being spit on and slapped, jokes about abusing and taking advantage of women, and so on — while I don't think either should ever be banned, I'd be a lot more concerned with the effects of mainstream porn on hundreds of thousands highschool football jocks raping and beating their girlfriends than I would be with the effects of fringe porn on the one psycho in twenty years that acts out on it.
In America, someone is raped every two minutes.
If you think that's because of BME-type porn, you're kidding yourself.
And if you really want to know where rapists come from, you need to look a lot farther than porn. Porn is fundamentally healthy and an outlet for people to safely explore sexual fantasies. Porn is rarely where rapists come from. Rapists — and I suspect the desires for abusive porn — are bred from religion, from repression, from poor parenting, and from banning pornography and sexual expression.
If you want to ban anything that turns people into rapists, ban the Bible.
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