A bill outlawing the possession of “extreme pornography” is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex.Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated.

When Graham Coutts was jailed for life Jane Longhurst’s mother, Liz, began a campaign to ban the possession of such images. WHAT IS EXTREME PORNOGRAPHY?

As defined by the new Criminal Justice Bill
An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals
An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse
A person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal

Supported by her local MP, Martin Salter, she found a listening ear in then home secretary, David Blunkett, who agreed to introduce legislation to ban the possession of “violent and extreme pornography”.

This was eventually included in the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, which gets its final reading this week and will get Royal Assent on 8 May.

Until now pornographers, rather than consumers, have needed to operate within the confines of the 1959 Obscene Publications Act (OPA). While this law will remain, the new act is designed to reflect the realities of the internet age, when pornographic images may be hosted on websites outside the UK.

Under the new rules, criminal responsibility shifts from the producer – who is responsible under the OPA – to the consumer.

But campaigners say the new law risks criminalising thousands of people who use violent pornographic images as part of consensual sexual relationships.

People like Helen, who by day works in an office in the Midlands, and enjoys being sexually submissive and occasionally watching pornography, portrayed by actors, which could be banned under the new legislation.

She feels the new law is an over-reaction to the Longhurst case.
“Mrs Longhurst sees this man having done this to her daughter and she wants something to blame and rather than blame this psychotic man she wants to change the law but she doesn’t really understand the situation,” says Helen.

“Do you ban alcohol just because some people are alcoholics?”

She has an ally in Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer, a Liberal Democrat peer who has fought to have the legislation amended.

“Obviously anything that leads to violence against women has to be taken very seriously,” says Baroness Miller. “But you have to be very careful about the definition of ‘extreme pornography’ and they have not nearly been careful enough.”

She has suggested the new act adopt the legal test set out in the OPA, which bans images which “tend to deprave and corrupt”.

But the government has sought to broaden the definition and the bill includes phrases such as “an act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s life”.

Speaking from her home in Berkshire, Mrs Longhurst acknowledges that libertarians see her as “a horrible killjoy”. I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG
A lot of people would like to march and demonstrate against this law but if you stick your head above the parapet you are going to get yourself in the firing line

Helen defends extreme porn
“I’m not. I do not approve of this stuff but there is room for all sorts of different people. But anything which is going to cause damage to other people needs to be stopped.”

To those who fear the legislation might criminalise people who use violent pornography as a harmless sex aid, she responds with a blunt “hard luck”.

“There is no reason for this stuff. I can’t see why people need to see it. People say what about our human rights but where are Jane’s human rights?”

Mr Blunkett echoed her views in a recent column in the Sun newspaper.

“Nothing can bring Jane back,” he wrote. “But all of us have a duty to ensure that, in a world where there are enough crazy acts already, we don’t allow others to incite, stimulate or gratify those with sick minds.”
Could images like this be banned?

Recently, the much-publicised rompings of Formula 1 boss Max Mosley have served as a reminder that kinky sex is found in all walks of society.
And just as Mr Mosely is fighting the expose of his antics, calling it an invasion of private life, so Baroness Miller says the new law also threatens people’s privacy.

“The government is effectively walking into people’s bedrooms and saying you can’t do this. It’s a form of thought police.”

She says there’s a danger of “criminalising kinkiness” and fears the legislation has been rushed through Parliament without proper debate because it is a small part of a wider bill.

Deborah Hyde, of Backlash, an umbrella group of anti-censorship and alternative sexuality pressure groups, has similar concerns.

Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one’s possession would be a crime. That does not seem to make sense to me

Lord Wallace of Tankerness

“How many tens or hundreds or thousands of people are going to be dragged into a police station, have their homes turned upside down, their computers stolen and their neighbours suspecting them of all sorts?”

Such “victims” won’t feel able to fight the case and “will take a caution, before there are enough test cases to prove that this law is unnecessary and unworkable”.

Another opponent of the new law is Edward Garnier, an MP and part-time judge, who questioned the clause when it was debated in the Commons.

“My primary concern is the vagueness of the offence,” says Mr Garnier. “It was very subjective and it would not be clear to me how anybody would know if an offence had been committed.”

But the Ministry of Justice is unrepentant, saying the sort of images it is seeking to outlaw are out of place in modern-day Britain.

“Pornographic material which depicts necrophilia, bestiality or violence that is life threatening or likely to result in serious injury to the anus, breasts or genitals has no place in a modern society and should not be tolerated,” says a spokeswoman for the ministry.
Graham Coutts, who killed Jane Longhurst after viewing extreme pornography
She points out the law is not intended to target those who accidentally come into contact with obscene pornography and nor would it target the mainstream entertainment industry or those who sell bondage material which is legally available.

Yet opponents have also seized on what they see as an ideological schism in the new law, noted by Lord Wallace of Tankerness during last week’s debate in the House of Lords.

“If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence,” he said. With that partly in mind, the government is tabling an amendment that would allow couples to keep pictures of themselves engaged in consensual acts – but not to distribute them.

“Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one’s possession would be a crime. That does not seem to make sense to me.”
Thanks to BBC News

How do they get away with it? The copying and reselling of other people’s films seems to be on the increase, not only do we have companies such as Yahoo and many other free host sites showing movies downloaded from legitimate web sites but we also have others simply advertising catalogues and selling the stolen product wholesale.
As with all forms of copyright theft and video piracy it is hard to stop but not impossible. The people doing this usually establish post office boxes and use other people as the front for their illegal business and make no mistake this is big business. It is in actuality not that hard to track these people down and we know that there are already some British pirates being looked at by the owners of the original material.
Everyone likes to get something for nothing, we all like to pay less than the going rate for things we want but the reality is that with these companies selling pirate films, DVDs and material downloaded from the internet they are robbing some hardworking people who maybe don’t make loads of money anyway, not nice people and they may soon be in for some surprises.

Copyright and intellectual property rights theft seems to be on the increase, this is not only in the music industry but in the not so rarefied air of the spanking community Why should that bother web users and spanking fans and what can you do about it? Everyone thinks that web site owners and operators make huge fortunes from operating their sites, in a few cases this may have a ring of truth but for the average size spanking web site there are no fortunes at the end of the rainbow or at the end of a hard days work.

We now have one of the largest organisations on the internet, Yahoo, through its sponsorship of its free to use and free to post adult groups positively condoning the theft of material from hard working web site owners.
How does it work? Quite complex in the actual operation but to simplify the twists and turns used by copyright thieves, and what we are talking about here are those individuals who join a web site, download its entire contents and then set out to post these contents on free to use and free to access web sites, they then publicise the postings on their Yahoo group so reaching a huge audience the world over.
Why do they do it? Who knows, these are people with no discernable talent of their own, no ability to create anything tangible and whose only claim to fame can be that they know how to steal the property of others and display it for others to look at.

Maybe you say this is not a thing to get irate over, well if no one is able to make at least some money from the whole enterprise, making, editing and placing films onto their legitimate web sites then pretty soon there will be no new content from particularly the smaller producers and lets face it, these are usually the real enthusiasts and are the most likely to produce the best films and the best web sites. It does actually cost quite a lot of money to produce content each week for a web site and while it may be great to be able to get the content for free just think how you would feel if you weren’t paid for your time at work or you as a producer of widgets suddenly found that someone had ripped off your design and was giving them away just down the street from you!

So what about Yahoo and there involvement in this illegal act. We know from a number of web site owners that they have been reporting to Yahoo the Yahoo groups who advertise illegal material to but Yahoo doesn’t make it easy. They are passed from one department to another and their intelligence insulted by repeated claims to keep supplying the same information to Yahoo time after time. You can look here Yahoo to find out what Yahoo say is their policy and if any web site or copyright owners want to make a complaint to yahoo try this complain as a starting place.

We understand that a number of site owners are getting together to stamp on people who think they can get away with this type of behaviour, action is we know being taken against the free sites hosting the stolen films, this is illegal in most countries, and it is now time that action was taken too curb the insolence of big business in the form of Yahoo who just don’t care. They may not be hosting the stolen product but they are helping the thieves point users in the direction of the product. If you want to help, then don’t use Yahoo, they are making money out of allowing pirates to use their services through advertising and other means. There are other ways to get to where you want to go to without using this unprincipled company.

We always like to welcome a new lady to the spanking scene so, welcome Kami. We just had a report from English Spankers about their shoot with this young lady and they were over the moon with her performance and her love of being spanked. Sounds strange to those who don’t understand the scene but to us, well that’s just the sort of thing we love to hear. We understand that after the filming was over and the crew just packing away the shooting kit, she started to get a bit naughty and it was decided that another spanking, paddling and a dose of the cane was called for, the makeup lady also decided to poke her nose in so she ended up, bottom bared and the cane being administered to her.

That’s the sort of thing we like to hear. We hope to have a short sample video of this happening on video very soon but in the meantime here’s a picture of young Kami to keep you happy.

Any more spanking shoot stories? Good or bad.

The idiots get everywhere and leave a mess. ‘Informed Consent’ a meeting place for subs and doms seems to have been hacked and pictures of Gordon Broon put in place of all the other pictures. We thought Broony would be too busy sorting out the new spanking bill (see earlier post) but he seems to be everywhere to day, could be cos it’s all fools day… Nahhhh