LONDON — Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a report released Wednesday that it “welcomes” a new proposal that extends the possession of extreme pornography to include possession of porn depicting rape and other non-consensual sexual penetration.
With welcoming the bill carried over from the last session of Parliament, “the committee considers this provision to be human rights enhancing, given the evidence of cultural harm done by such pornography, and acknowledges the strong justification provided by the government and others for this proportionate restriction on individual rights.”
The “rape porn” amendment, regardless of whether it looks realistic or unrealistic, states that an image would be illegal “if it portrays, in an explicit and realistic way … an act which involves the non-consensual penetration of a person’s vagina, anus or mouth by another with the other person’s penis.”
If convicted, defendants in the U.K. could face three-year sentences for being in possession of rape porn under the proposal that extends the 2008 law that criminalized the possession of extreme porn.
Myles Jackman, a U.K. attorney who specializes in obscenity cases, said the bill “will create a thought crime to censor and criminalize the consensual sexual fantasies of millions of adults in this country.”
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