That British Board of Film Censors is so prude.
An amendment to the United Kingdom’s 2003 Communications Act now requires all video-on-demand (VOD) adult films in the UK adhere to the same guidelines as standard DVDs. This arbitrary regulation has effectively become a war on the pleasure of women especially, and has banned the following from all films:
- Spanking
- Caning
- Aggressive whipping
- Penetration by any object "associated with violence"
- Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of/if consensual)
- Urolagnia (known as “water sports”)
- Female ejaculation
- Strangulation
- Facesitting
- Fisting
The British Board of Film Censors actually deems the final three acts on the list “life-endangering,” which seems a bit over the top. More problematic, though, is that lumping consensual and nonconsensual acts together in this list of banned practices casts a really bizarre and arbitrary definition on what is and isn’t OK.
Really, dominatrix Itziar Bilbao Urrutia puts it best: “"I mean, why ban facesitting? What's so dangerous about it? It's a harmless activity that most femdom performers, myself included, do fully dressed anyway. Its power is symbolic: woman on top, unattainable.”
Precisely.
[via Independent]
