‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce

[JackRiddler]

508. No, and what an insulting question.

One is rape, a crime that should be punished. (As should the making of actual rape films, enslavement of people for such films, etc. etc. insofar as these actually happen.)

The other is fictional depiction - or I should say de piction? - of whatever David Cameron and an authoritarian law enforcement system decide looks like rape on film. Which is to say, all the rape in the pop culture (which of course can be titillating, and is often played to titillate) will be fine, but small-potatoes producers will be hunted. Ostensibly. Since this kind of hunt is necessarily arbitrary.

Oh, and then locking people up for 3 years if they "possess" it. The "loophole"! Of course this can happen just by being spammed by it, for all you know it's been malwared on to your hard drive right now.

Of course this has nothing whatsoever to do with the supposed goals of protecting women, any more than bombing Afghanistan or Iraq is done for women's rights (oh look, same state there too).

It's about creating new criminal offenses and public hysterias -- a perfectly acceptable word, by the way most of these are managed by males -- to justify expanding law enforcement powers and budgets. In already one of the world's most advanced police states (at least as bad as the U.S. in the matter of surveillance).

It's also distraction: pretending they're doing anything about rape, by attacking possession of depictions, as if these are the cause.