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"Barely legal" = totally legal and ok
We need to end orginized religion and stop these sex obsessed freaks from censoring our society.
Ya fed the terfs, put them in power and now you're discovering they're ultra conservative sex-panicked weirdos.
People on fucking mars saw this coming.
Yeah, so I already see where this sliding scale is moving towards. Let's just require all porn models to be 80, this way we.can be absolutely sure that they won't be anywhere near the barely legal line!
We can also know that now almost nobody will be watching porn anymore
The programme followed the performer for six months and included her claim to have had sex with 1,057 clients over the course of 12 hours.
Holy shit, not even hentai can reach such high numbers. Even as a gangbang queen, that's a lot of dick to satisfy
She found it in pursuing “barely legal” sex – traditionally one of the most searched-for terms in porn – with the twist that instead of men searching for videos of other men having sex with teenage (or teenage-looking, depending on how many internet layers you’re prepared to sift through for your purposes) girls, Billinger offered herself to young men. -- She had sex with them for free on condition that they gave permission for her to upload the footage to her OnlyFans account
That's about the smartest economical move she could've made
"UK pornography task force"
Shades of this imo:
I'm doing my part
Some people really aren't comfortable with the fact that you do actually have to have a line where things are legal
But its legal....?
That's why they need to change the law in order to ban it. Duh
ok soooo.... then you're like making the legal age 20 rather than 18? What next 20 year olds are now barely legal? So we would have to make 20 year olds illegal now right? Whats the REAL legal age??
Just make the legal age of performers 85, it'll vastly reduce the number of porn viewers.
Don't underestimate gooners
All models and actresses should be over 30. Because if you are made to find a 29 year old attractive through exposure, then that is a gateway to 28 year old objectification perversions. We can examine barely legal 31 year olds after fixing the "young near porn" epidemic.
A reminder this government is also drawing up proposals for reintroduction of blasphemy laws. They know where they can shove their crucifix.
Do you have a link, not that I don't believe you, but I like to check before I tell other people
A man was just convicted and fined for burning a Koran, under a blasphemy law by another name.
Clever strategy: barely legal means legal, and if they make it illegal, there will just be a new category that is now barely legal...which now is illegal!
It's a blanket ban by induction.
Or they could fuck off and leave people be
Barely barely legal
These barley legal ladies are finally 65
I mean the barely legal stuff is certainly weird. But how are you going to restrict people over 18 from doing porn, just because they look young? And pretending that this will fix pedophilia is so dumb. But I'm not sure what I even expect these days...
I keep telling people around me, the more they do to the "questionable" shit like this it's just testing the waters for ALL of it, it's all puritan culture guilt tripping BS
The end game is probably sex isn't legal unless married, but also, you're allowed to marry 12 year olds again.
Then sex outside of marriage isn't legal.
All porn becomes illegal.
It’s a good thing England is importing people with this exact cultural view.
Sounds familiar to some countries...
im assuming the idea is that a failing economy wants to instill puritanical bullshit like this because they think that young men and women will want to fuck each other more now that they cant masturbate as easily. and thus will increase the birthrate, which over time will stimulate the economy by having more low born wagies and soldiers to support and defend a dying status quo.
by formally giving your ID and biometrics for access to porn, you set yourself up down the line for legal blackmail if you ever try to resist, or become a personality of resistance in any way.
the elites have done this for years to one another, now, they want to create a system of manipulation where regular, normal pornography can be used as a tool of manipulation on the masses.
"oh, you think we shouldnt support israel? well thats a ironic coming from a degenerate deviant pervert who likes oiled up big booty latinas and stacked furry futa hentai"
people are gonna crank hog whether you like it or not. we've been doin it since we evolved thumbs.
fight the good fight UK, never stop crankin'. get a vpn and download everything while you still can.
Honestly that would seem like the most common sense idea that anyone would/could draw up from this, and for the most part I think this is what the gov is trying to do.
I think there's an unstated side effect from the Online Safety Act which nobody seems to be talking about - using the new powers to effectively censor Palestinian protests online.
You can read about it some more: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/human-rights-defenders-raise-concerns-that-online-safety-act-will-lead-to-censorship-of-palestine-protest/
I've genuinely never felt so depressed about voting in this government in my entire life. Actual gross dystopian bullshit.
Yeah, I voted for Jezza but I saw this coming. While I wanted the Tories out, I couldn't bring myself to vote for red Tories to replace them.
This is exactly the same shit they were pulling back in the Blair days.
Ok off topic, but why call Jeremy "Jezza"?
I already did a quick google because I don't get it, but the explanation didn't help. Obviously, Dave for David, Liz for Elizabeth, Mike for Michael, etc... make sense. But Jezza? For Jeremy?
Make it make sense.
You stop at the R and change if to a Z. Barry = Baz, Darren = Daz, Carol = Caz etc etc. Because British English is non rhotic, it doesn't work if we stop at the R (like USAians can say "Gar" for Gary) so the z sound gets used instead, because it's pretty close.
Then the A gets added if you're being extra friendly or cute, a bit like Michael > Mike > Mikey. Gareth becomes Gary becomes Gaz becomes Gazza.
Make sense?
I don't think many of us USAians would drop the y and say Gar, but I get where you're coming from.
From the Midwest and I can confirm we drop the Y, Gar Bear is a common funny nickname for the Gary in your life
well, what do I know.
get a vpn
I think it's even more important to pipe up about i2p
https://geti2p.net/en/about/intro
If we're making it more our own again, and harder for them to understand it we then as people regain our Internet.
They wanna play whack a mole with millions bring it on 😅
are there any downsides like speed and connectivity?
or has all that been worked out since it's been around since 2002 (and apparently I've never heard of it like Tot, which has its own drawbacks)?
Obviously there's not as many seeds for torrents as there is on the Clearnet, but recent uploads saw me getting reasonably decent speeds while some of the older torrents can take some time or be dead....just like the ones on the Clearnet.
There is something that while it doesn't affect me here in the UK (yet....) there are issues with connectivity in certain dictatorships listed on their site
https://geti2p.net/en/about/restrictive-countries
Try it out, there's even an Android app which I never really used and only have i2p on my server at home. Reading the reviews it seems to be hit and miss on a phone, and I should really give it a try sometime.
Yet another ill concieved piece of legislation incoming, from a bunch of elderly people who don't understand anything and are quick to moral panic.
Imagine the recruitment process for this taskforce. A bunch of people rushing to volunteer for this taskforce that requires watching all the source material for research purposes.
The Online Safety Act charged the regulator Ofcom with monitoring whether pornography sites are protecting UK viewers from encountering illegal material involving ....extreme content, such as...necrophilia.
Back when he had started out in law school, the Honourable Judge Hodgkins had not expected to be spending the seniormost years of his career ruling on whether or not a lich queen should be considered dead by British legal standards. However, it was Parliament that wrote the law, not him. He went back to scrutinizing, side-by-side, a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Player's Handbook.
And another turn of the screw.
They could start with the Daily Mail.
I think all adult performers should have gray hair and the only allowable category should be definitely legal.
2x legal, twice the law abiding.
Probably all the same people complaining about this, are the same ones who support "traditional values" like child marriage.