Tag: rape porn
Letter to MPs on Criminalising “Rape Porn”
This week, the following letter was sent to a number of MPs and Lords, to raise concerns over the planned “rape porn” legislation. This was sent on behalf of Backlash and an alliance of other sexual freedom campaigns: Sex & Censorship, Consenting Adult Action Network, Campaign Against Censorship and the Sexual […]
‘Rape porn’ ban would not close any supposed loophole
Myles Jackman, legal adviser to Backlash, has written a forensic analysis of the case for banning rape porn for Lexis®PSL Crime, reproduced on his blog. Here is a key section: How do the Government’s proposals fit in with the law on the possession of extreme pornography? In brief: they don’t. […]
Statement on proposed extension of extreme porn ban
The ‘extreme porn’ ban poses a greater threat to the morality and stability of this society than the speculative harms of possessing images merely depicting violence.
So-called ‘Rape porn’ ban would be another threat to sexual freedom
Myles Jackman, legal adviser to Backlash, criticises the nebulous justification of ‘cultural harm’ for banning the mere possession of staged depictions of rape in an exhaustive legal article on his blog. In a key passage, he discusses the failure of prohibitionists to distinguish between fantasy rape scenarios and real acts […]