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When I was browsing a came on a website and the following was posted:

Unfortunately due to new UK regulations from the 1 December 2014
this site is closing.

Can someone tell me what kind of UK regulations started on 1 December 2014?

Yours sincerely

As part of their fatuous campaign to make the internet only suitable for 5 year olds, the Govt introduced regulations banning the portrayal of a number of sexual activities which though not illegal to perform in the privacy of ones own bedroom are considered too dangerous to be allowed on the internet.

There was a demo earlier in december filmed by OEJ and me amongst many others.

Yes Andy, rediculious regulations (has the UK been re-named China or North Korea?).

Anyway, I believe that since they came into force on the 1st December that "Facesitting" has been removed from the list of "banned activities" although I have not checked to confirm so do not take that as actual fact.

Myson
!oldie!

I find it really annoying that a lot of people in this country do not stand up for their rights and contest these stupid laws that eventually slipped in because of the complacency of people failing tact until it became law.

Now its going to take time and effort to unravel

To anyone who thinks protesting is a waste of time should consider the plus side of this event: Julian Huppert as put in an early motion to get the law annulled. Nick Clegg has expressed interest in looking into this. ATVOD have tried to appease the crowd by saying face sitting is ok which is funny because their lack of transparency includes having to join the Adult Provider Network for you to have any say against them.

Thats not enough as far as I'm concerned. They've not fixed anything that wasn't broke already. This new law was set up specifically to aid ATVOD gaining control to monitor, control and assist OFCOM in dishing out exorbitant impossible to pay fines to individual website vendors.

That protest proves that all you have to do to be heard is merely open your mouth and say you disapprove. Support the right people and you can help bring about change and limit the damage

Apathy never did nothing for anyone but allow more laws like this to come in

I admire your post, one eyed jack, I really do.

Sadly, I often hear people say that they disagree with something but wouldn't bother to complain about it because they don't believe their protest would make any difference.

A country where something as innocuous as face sitting is deemed okay in the
bedroom but not on the web is a country that sexually is a bad joke ! As
Andy says, Uk Govts seem to want the web to be only good for 5 year olds.
Certainly 5 years old seems to be the age that successive Brit Govts prefer
to govern from webwise rather than the adults who use it all the time - and
pay for its use.
Frankly, as a Brit who couldn`t take it any more years ago and moved to
mainland Europe, I don`t know why all with Brit adult websites don`t just
leave the damned island and let Polish immigrants have free run of the place.

I have contacted the Conservative party to complain about this and was told to contact the Department for Culture, Media and Sport directly via the following email: enquiries@culture.gsi.gov.uk so I encourage everyone else to do the same. I have had no reply from them even though I have mailed them a few times now about that and fox hunting but hopefully it still shows them not everyone is happy with their dictatorship.

But how you explain that on website has to be closing due that law and another website with the same content is still active.

The servers location...plenty of sites have left the UK and gone not far away
because their laws are less strict

Bottom line is UK laws dont affect things outside of its jurisdiction

Even if they try and block sits at the ISP level VPNs can bypass them with ease

best example is no porn in the mail - a complete success in making UK productions move distribution off shore - one of the biggest collectors of porn resides in the UK - he only buys via mail - shows how stupid those laws are.

BUT then their only laws made to appease the middle class god fearing christian sheep

The fools that think UK laws protect anyone are kidding themselves given the internet is global

If you are after a list, here it is:


The following content is not acceptable from the 1st December 2014

Today marks the beginning of a new phase in a sustained campaign of internet censorship which has wide-reaching consequences beyond the mere production and consumption of pornography.

These new regulations impose even more draconian restrictions on the types of pornography that can be depicted on regulated Video on Demand services. Previously the Crown Prosecution Service?s Guidance on the OPA provided a list of sexual activities which were deemed illegal to publish.

However these new Regulations specifically state that only sexual content that is equivalent to the BBFC R18 Category can be sold via VoD service. This is a significantly lower threshold.

According to Nikki Whiplash, a regulated video on demand service provider who attended a recent ATVOD and BBFC led seminar on the impact of the new regulations, the following sexual activities will be deemed either acceptable or unacceptable at R18 classification level:

Watersports and Squirting
Peeing and squirting are acceptable if not performed onto another person and/or then consumed.

Squirting during sex or masturbation is acceptable if fairly brie, isolated and not deliberately consumed or put onto a body. It would be acceptable to imply that it was licked up if could be deemed as to be simulated.

Fisting
Fisting is not acceptable. Penetration with all five digits beyond last knuckle is not acceptable; but all five digits of two or more hands would be acceptable as long as not past last knuckle.

Ofcom have sought medical guidance on fisting and don't believe it to be a dangerous act to perform. However, as the CPS? Guidelines specifically cite fisting as obscene the BBFC can't pass fisting for classification. The BBFC acknowledge that they are well aware of the decision in R v Peacock but are obliged to have regard to CPS? OPA Guidelines.

Amputee Insertion
Since the BBFC haven't ever needed to consider amputee insertion, they reserve their position on the matter.

Enemas
Enemas are acceptable if once they are squirted out they don't hit anyone else and does not contain feces. It is not acceptable to subsequently lick up what has been expelled; unless this is simulated (for example switched for another substance).

Catheters
Catheterisation is acceptable, even if catheter connected to mouth; presuming that the tube is not transparent so that the liquid moving through cannot be seen.

Eating ejaculate
Any form of consumption of (male) ejaculate is acceptable.

Vomiting
Vomiting may be acceptable if it is not performed as part of a sexual act; and is not visibly enjoyed by the participants.

?Public? Sex
Should the content features any nudity or other activity which might outrage the public decency, then the BBFC must be assured that the material in question was shot on private land with no public access or shot abroad. However, simulating the impression that it is in public is acceptable, fir example a vehicle with tinted windows. The key consideration that the material has not been created in the public eye.

?Age Play?
Anything which might ?encourage? incest or sex with children under the age of eighteen is absolutely unacceptable.

However school uniforms are acceptable presuming that there are no references to the performer pretending to be under eighteen; and participants clearly 'of legal age' and participating in a consensual adult role play

Weapons
Sexual activities performed at gunpoint are unacceptable if it is ?believable?. This will depend on tone and believability. Basically if it looks like it could be a non-consensual activity then it is not acceptable.

Bondage and Restraint
Full bondage in conjunction with a gag is unacceptable, since there needs to be an obvious (to the viewer) means to signal to stop. Hence it is acceptable if not all four limbs are tied. Thus a means to indicate the withdrawal of consent must be visible to the viewer. For example full bondage and gagging would be acceptable if there is a safe signal which is defined as part of the scene.

Thus elements like artistic license, storyline and context become important. Hence a straightforward bondage scenario with no surrounding context is less likely to be acceptable than something with features a clearly signaled role play component.

BDSM Pain play
Acts which if copied by the uninitiated have the potential to cause injuries more than transient and trifling are extremely unlikely to be acceptable.

Only "moderate" pain play is acceptable. Thus reddening of the skin acceptable but no raised welts, blood and bruising are not.

Needle-Play
Needles are more likely to be considered acceptable as they only cause transient and trifling injury similar to legal tattooing.

Facesitting as Breathing Restriction
Facesitting employed as a breathing restriction or any other form of smothering is unacceptable. However, facesitting without breathing restriction is acceptable. There is no flexibility on this. The airways must remain open. Apparently the rationale for this distinction is that men trying this at home might die.

Ballbusting
Ballbusting may be acceptable, depending on the level. OFCOM recommend submitting clips in question for review. It will come down to definition of moderate pain and whether viewers at home are likely to sustain serious injury if they try it at home. Hence ball-yanking is not acceptable; whereas controlled ball stretching is acceptable.

Trampling
This will depend on the surface upon which the person is being trampled on.

Urethral Sounds
The insertion of urethral sounds is acceptable presuming that they are not inserted so far in as to enter the bladder; and that appropriate sterile and safety considerations are taken such as the use of lubricant and gloves.

Insertion of objects like buttplugs
The insertion of other objects is acceptable presuming that it is clear that they couldn't get. Hence the use of buttplugs is acceptable. Hence a clip of a mobile phone vanishing up an anus would not be acceptable, despite being a spoof, on the basis that people might try it at home.

Power Tools
The use of power tools is unacceptable, since most people have one lying around at home. However purpose designed ?fucking-machines? are acceptable. The test in question is the 'association with violence'.

Head-Scissoring
Head-scissoring is acceptable, presuming that it is gentle. However, if it is seen to be pushing on the carotid restricting blood flow then it is not acceptable. Hence, choking sounds or reddening of face as a result are not acceptable. As soon as any pressure is exerted it would be considered a choke hold and therefore not acceptable.

Wrestling
Wrestling is acceptable only if knockout moves are not deployed. Facesitting and seemingly non gentle scissoring are not acceptable.

Gagging
Gagging on cock and deep throat are acceptable if not for the whole scene. However, language of the 'gag on my cock' variety is unacceptable due to the reference to choking.

Definitions
These guidelines should be interpreted subject to these definitions:
"Fairly brief" = less than a minute
"Isolated" = not more than a couple of occurrences in a scene.