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In reply to the discussion: Liberals and violent porn and rape simulation [View all]KitSileya
(4,035 posts)In other words, the porn is illegal to sell in the UK already; however, the internet has made such a ban meaningless. What they are doing is closing a loophole, and the impetus is several murders where the murderers watched such porn beforehand, and experts who say that such viewing such porn increases the risk of raping someone.
To be honest, I live in a country where you cannot buy a gun willynilly, and where the laws are stricter than in the US in many areas. We condone the German ban on material that denies the Holocaust, and honestly, I'll sleep very well at night should rape porn be banned both in the UK and where I live.
Great Britain may have more per capita surveillance cameras, but the US does more surveillance than any other nation on Earth. Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house.