General News British government vs. Anal Sex

I know the article is about Britain, but I've posted this bumper sticker before and I feel it's more relevant sometimes than it needs to be:



It really isn't the government's business what goes on in the bedroom, provided that no one is being abused. Anal sex prohibitions seem so draconian and Puritan, I had no idea Britain had issues with this. Then again, they are the ones who persecuted Alan Turing for his homosexuality after he helped them win WWII.

 

The UK has long been really, really weird about porn. Prior to around 1998 or so, you could not even show a naked man with an erection, period. It had to be flaccid, or it would not pass this Royal Censorship Board; this was when much porn was still in magazines. I recall the law only changed when the conservatives lost power.

Then again, even in the US, all porn was illegal prior to about 1974, and that really is not all that long ago, and the laws are still vague enough that with conservatives taking power, you could begin to see more and more censorship here.

I think you get more of it in the UK, because so far as I know, they don't have nearly as strong freedom of speech laws embodied in their 'constitution', and cases relating to them.

Australia is also very, very conservative and nutty about these things...

 

Establishing moral superiority feeds their egos, so really there is nothing better or more important.

But really, it exposes them as petty and myopic legislators.

 

Okay I know this sounds so unholy but isn't it against the law for girls to cum in English porn?

 

Incredibly stupid. Safer sex practices work.

People are not going to stop having anal sex, and nor should they. They should be careful and respectful when they do.

 

I don't argue my humanity to people. I'm content to let them know we are mortal enemies.

Unfortunately, I'm not the best of advocates because I don't have emotional investment in being able to donate blood. Apparently, having taken it in the ass, I can't donate blood anyway. I don't even view that as a loss. Nevertheless, I understand why gay and bisexual men care. The blood donation ban is really a proxy for saying that gay and bisexual men are bearers of disease. It contributes to hatred of gay and bisexual men. So on that basis, sure, it should be argued against. I'm just not terribly interested.

One, they have to test all the blood anyway. Two, people can lie on questionnaires. Three, there's no point in banning someone who used a barrier. There was even a study done on serodiscordant couples, and when safer sex practices were consistently used, the seroconversion rate was extremely low. So there is, to my understanding, little scientific basis to make the argument for banning gay and bisexual men from donating blood unless the idea is "I don't like fags and teh butt seks iz icky!"

The stupidity only becomes more difficult to comprehend as the arrow of time travels...

~ Adrienne

 

Guys why can't we just be friends?

 

The thing is, these people will always be reductionist. As we know, anal sex is becoming more common in the straight world... But as soon as we talk about doing it in the butt, "it's all just gay" to them.

I do, but I believe in certain limits about what reasonable people can disagree on.

 

Alright you two that's enough arguing for tonight! Now go to bed!

 

In any case, I think it was like 2014 or something like that... the UK banned some list of sex acts in porn. I don't think the object was really to make porn safer, or educate the public about consent, or improve life for sex workers. The object with these kinds of scare tactics is always to centralize power in the state and to scapegoat minorities...

I mean, it's good to ban female ejaculation right? That shit can rip off limbs!

Sure, Mom.