U.K. to Ban Intimate Spanking!

According to the BBC, a “bill outlawing the possession of ‘extreme pornography’ is set to become law next week.”

It’s bad enough that airline travelers carrying laptops now have to worry about the images stored on their hard drive (no pun intended), but now the U.K. has placed the burden on consumers to filter out any “extreme pornography” from their possession. In a seemingly extreme and sexual-xenophobic gesture, the U.K. seems hell-bent on denying their debaucherous citizens pleasure from foreign porn: “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.”

The U.K.’s Criminal Justice Bill defines extreme pornography as:

An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s life (a New York subway ride?). An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals (Dancing with the Stars?). An act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse (attending a Yankees baseball game?). A person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (mans best friend?).

Viva La France!

More at the BBC.