Porn Bill

[nailit]

From the 15th of July the UK will implement the Digital Economy Bill which will ask users of porn sites for age verification...which is set at 18.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/92571/uk-porn-block-digital-economy-act-to-limit-access-to-adult-sites

All well and good if it protects children. But does it?
How come that people can get married and have lawful sexual relations at 16 years of age but a 17 yr old who wants a bit of masturbation material cant access such sites?
Not meaning to be contentious here but 17 year old single males are as much sexual beings as 16 yr old married couples.
For what its worth, I had my first sexual encounter at 15 and was viewing porn a long time before that. (and no, it didn't demean women in my experience)

Why this discrepancy that 16 year olds can enjoy a sexual relationship (and in which ever way they wish) but cant view others doing the same until they are 18?

UK age of consent between 2 adults, 16 years.
Age to use masturbation aids, 18 years.
Bonkers!

[jim360]

// Some things should be private, and voyeuurism [sic] is wrong. //

Also depends on your fetishes. As long as it's between capably consenting adults, anything goes.

[douglas9401]

Governments: Never knowingly doing anything worth a *** since ever.

[Theland]

Jim - On film? Really?

[jno]

Nailit, as you're probably aware, rather than monitor porn use themselves, the government have outsourced it to pornographers. So they will have ID details of everyone in the coutnry who wants to watch porn. Now what could go wrong with that?

[Theland]

Blackmail?

[jim360]

Well, obviously not, since film has only existed since the late 19th Century. Then again, porn films took, oh, let's say a few years after that before they started? The earliest film footage I'm aware of dates to 1888, and the earliest porn film to 1896.

So, in practical terms, yes.

[woofgang]

but before that therfe were books and before that images made in various media.....have you been to pompeii?

[Spicerack]

I suspect it's a 'foot in the door' just in case we do leave the EU.

https://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FD4GiyeQW4AAjB_h.jpg&key=hWDTX7Y66MWZmQYFA1GxlQ&w=600&h=450

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

You're really gone into the history of porn haven't you Jim, can you tell me if an age restriction was ever put on those 'What the Butler saw' machines situated at the end of the Pier?

[fender62]

or you could use a vpn service, if you dont know what it is, google vpn

[jim360]

If you were replying to me Woofgang I suppose I just want to stress that the exist of erotic graffiti, etc, at Pompeii proves the point I was making, ie I was replying to Theland's mistaken impression that porn is "new". Indeed, there's even some erotic prose/poetry in the Bible, in the form of Song of Songs.

AOG: not sure, but I don't know how they would have enforced such an age restriction if it was in place.

[ummmm]

Porn is so unrealistic that I do agree that it should be age restricted.

Our teenagers need to experience 'real' sex before watching watching stuff that doesn't really happen in real life.

[Spicerack]

As you well know, AOG, people under 25 never had the penny to put in the slot.