Today in London, our friends at The Independent colorfully report, “Protesters descended on Parliament…to protest the recent changes to pornography laws by heartily plunging their vulva onto the face of a willing partner.”
The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2014 banned a number of legal acts from UK porn, including spanking, female ejaculation, face-sitting, and humiliation on December 1, on the grounds pretext they are potentially dangerous and might encourage home ‘re-enactments’.
The face-sitting protest came about because free speech advocates, pro-sex campaigners, adult performers and business owners argue the change in law not only damages the UK’s porn industry, with online viewers still able to access content banned in the country by watching videos filmed abroad, but amounts to “arbitrary censorship”.
PHOTO: The Guardian
‘That was the most fantastic face sitting.’ Average afternoon in Westminster. https://t.co/rVGzLWlys1
— Ned Simons (@nedsimons) December 12, 2014
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Thank you #pornprotest for giving us what is by far the best Vine of 2014 https://t.co/pz0SQ8EGvB
— EJ Dickson (@ejdickson) December 12, 2014
Activists outside Parliament for #PornProtest pic.twitter.com/xtaD0hoiro
— ManolisMavrantonakis (@SykoFantiS) December 12, 2014
See more pics at The Independent
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