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In reply to the discussion: ‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)You are making a lot of really wild correlations of things that have nothing to do with each other.
If two consenting adults are engaging in a some simulated rape fantasy or roleplay or whatever...I don't really give a damn, and neither should the government.
Porn of that activity does not support real rape any more than than a horror movie supports actually killing people. Mainstream pornographers and the BDSM community operate under the philosophy of being "safe, sane, and consensual." There are safewords or safe signals in place along with boundaries and limits decided on and agreed on beforehand. And if anyone wants to stop, then the scene stops immediately. In such porn, no one is being forced into anything. And everybody understands the boundaries set.
Are there underground organizations that do illegal stuff? Of course there is. But that stuff is illegal already. The problem is because a bulk of it is done outside this country, we have no means of enforcement. Does that mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and ban the entire internet? You can ban the legal porn all you want, it won't stop the illegal stuff.