Flogging a Good Cause
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‘She is constantly visited by amateurs of birch discipline, being always furnished with brooms of green birch and of the best quality, and is always happy to see any friend that feels himself inclinable to spend three or four guineas in her company.’
The lady in question can be found residing on Berwick Street, Soho; and if a good flogging or spanking is your bag, I’m certain she’ll be more than happy to receive you. The only snag is that she’s been dead for more than two-hundred years, with the above description of her particular talent lifted from the pages of Harris’s Book of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual publication in the mid-to-late eighteenth century that offered both resident and visitor an extensive guide to the sex-workers of Georgian London. My compilation edition of the publication offers a glossary of slang from the time that serves to translate the numerous colloquial phrases for various sexual specialities, but this wouldn’t have been necessary when the books were published as the slang used wasn’t a clandestine code ala polari; the capital’s sex industry of the 1700s was an open and guilt-free business, not to mention a booming one. Flagellation was perhaps the most flourishing branch (sorry!) of the industry, as the number of premises in and around the Covent Garden district that specialised in this specific pleasure outnumbered those that didn’t. So renowned was the Brits’ appetite for flogging and spanking that the French referred to it as the English Perversion. A long and proud history that considerably predates the Marquis de Sade should therefore count for something, but not in the sexually liberated society of the 21st century, it would seem.
Last week, an amendment to the 2003 Communications Act listed a series of sexual acts that often feature in the more obscure online pornography that are now no longer permissible in British-produced porn. Included on the list was the good old ‘English Perversion’ – Spanking, Caning and Aggressive Whipping (is there such a thing as non-aggressive whipping?). However, were this list limited to one of the oldest kinky pastimes, it would be laughable enough; but other life-threatening acts now deemed beyond-the-pale on-screen include Humiliation; Facesitting; Fisting; Watersports (apparently known as Urolagnia – I could have sworn that was a former Soviet Republic); Female Ejaculation (still okay for a woman to be splattered in the discharge of Male Ejaculation, apparently); Penetration by Any Object Associated With Violence (bang goes the old cop-and-truncheon standby, then); and Role-playing as Non-Adults (Remember, role-playing, which means pretending, just like every actor playing Demetrius or Chiron pretends to rape and cut off the tongue and hands of Lavinia in ‘Titus Andronicus’ on stage).
Perhaps best of all lewd and licentious activities viewed as unacceptable on the list is ‘Physical or Verbal Abuse – Regardless if Consensual’. Did you catch that last bit? That’s right – regardless if consensual. Where, I wonder, does that leave any movie in which two characters physically and verbally abuse each other? Mr T’s goading of Sylvester Stallone in ‘Rocky III’ includes both; the former suggests Rocky’s missus would have a better time in bed with him and then both men knock seven bells out of each other. But they are, lest we forget, actors, a label that also applies to (slightly) lesser thespians in a porn video based around role-playing.
When quizzed about these laughable new rules and regulations, the predictable response from the Department of Media, Culture and (presumably not water) Sport said imposing such restrictions was a ‘tried and trusted method for protecting children.’ Sorry? Where do children come into this? We’re not talking about child pornography, we’re talking about fully grown adults pleasuring each other for the pleasure of other fully grown adults. Why should everything involving adults today be governed by what is perceived as harmful to some imaginary child? What about those of us who don’t have – and have never wanted – children? It seems what we can or cannot watch is viewed through a prism that relegates all to the status of a child. Surely if a child accidentally accesses online porn, is that not the responsibility of its parents for not blocking it from the family computer? This is a child that can stroll into a supermarket or be entombed in a doctor’s waiting room with its mother and be bombarded by cheap and tawdry titillating magazines boasting such headlines as ‘Sick Dad Dressed As Santa and Then Raped Us’ or return home to switch on MTV and be confronted by a virtually naked pop siren gyrating around the screen whilst singing a song about masturbation.
Incidentally, I’m not and never have been a devotee of pornography. Frankly, I find it boring, repetitive and utterly un-arousing. To me, it seems to narrow rather than widen the vista of the sexual experience, reducing what the great Adam Ant once referred to as ‘the last adventure known to mankind’ to a series of choreographed clichés enacted on a tedious loop. But maybe that’s just me. I do, however, maintain it is the right of an adult in a supposedly free society to enter into a mutual agreement with other adults, and be fully aware that what he or she is about to receive is the province of those old enough to both understand and enjoy what is going on. It would appear those engaged in the cause of protecting children now regard niche markets of the sex industry that few adults, let alone children, are exposed to on a regular basis as more worthy of diverting their energies towards than the actual genuine threats to children such as ones that were allowed to take place in a certain South Yorkshire town. Well, f*** me up the arse with a red-hot poker! Just don’t film it when you do.
Petunia Winegum
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December 9, 2014 at 10:36 am -
Perhaps the best way to protect children from the evils of online pornography is to educate them. It’s only human nature (and especially teenage human nature) to be curious of anything from which they are ‘banned’. Expain what porn is, and how disconnected most of it is from normal human intimacy, and it will lose most of it’s allure, I feel. Knowledge is power; uninformed curiosity is dangerous.
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December 9, 2014 at 1:03 pm -
“Perhaps the best way to protect children from the evils of online pornography is to educate them.”
Aye, Junior will love you for having a long chat with him about online porn. He won’t find it soul-meltingly awkward at all.
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December 9, 2014 at 1:29 pm -
There wasn’t much by way of sex education when I was at school. Most of what I learned was behind the bike-sheds. However, one History master did take it upon himself to give us an informal lecture on sexually-transmitted diseases, based on his war-time service in the Middle East with the Army. There was no embarrassment in class that I can remember (boys only), but descriptions of the war-time methods of treating venereal diseases gave me a life-long caution about where I poked my penis. Education does work.
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December 9, 2014 at 10:59 am -
When they used the term “He groomed the nation” to describe the fictional misdeeds of a dead man, it struck me that it was *they* who were grooming a nation – and the changes in attitudes to pornography over the course of the past 20 years is a clear indicator of that.
I will *confess* to having used pornography to get my rocks off over the course of my adolescence and early childhood, and what a fantastic outlet it was for my raging hormones that kept me out of trouble – but pornography changed radically around the mid-late 90’s and subsequently lost much of its appeal to me – my rites of passage included studying the marvelous female form in “soft” porno mags like Mayfair and Club International, and reading the ‘erotic stories’ in those magazines to get a handle on the ways of the woman. The differences in the magazine titles seem to be of the level of attainment on the models featured – I enjoyed Razzle & Escort too, but the more glamorous ladies were in the slightly glossier mags. Glancing through a 20/25/30 year top shelf magazine is, like so many other things, a trip into a lost world.
Circa 1999, the restrictions on UK porn were relaxed, but what that meant in real terms was the top shelf magazines became ‘explicit’ in a very unnecessary and American way – every other shot of a model was a ‘kebab shot’ (ie involved her genitalia being ‘opened’ by her fingers etc), the video variants focusing on the ‘old in/out’ action – now, call me old fashioned but the appeal of porn for was to look or watch, and imagine – not just view a display of ‘action’ akin to a butcher’s window. After all, when one is engaged in a sexual act it rarely involves staring at the point of entry does it? It is this mechanized and cynical imagery that has graduated from under-the-counter videos imported from America and given titles like ‘Teen Patrol 2′ into pop music, which has all but banished the side of pornography that always appealed to me – the eroticism, the sensuality, the use of the imagination. And now we find them criminalizing certain niche acts, seemingly on the ‘toss’ (if you pardon the pun) of a coin. Thus pornography becomes as unappealing as the plastic youth of today, and ‘sexy’ (in the true sense of the word) consigned to ‘niche’ itself.
Just before the nation was placed under a moral ‘Lockdown’, a genuine worldwide phenomena of erotica – created and consumed almost entirely by females without the media’s approval or guidance – was an unprecedented success. The contents of that book, Fifty Shades of Grey, seem to be the kind of thing being outlawed now. http://retardedkingdom.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/fifty-shades-of-hypocrisy.htmlAnother point too, if I may – in my experience, ‘spanking’ is a very female-centric sexual pleasure. The psychology of spanking – elements perhaps of childhood repression manifesting itself in adult sexuality, of a submissive female wanting to be dominated by a male, the connotations of violence and thrill-seeking – is something the feminazi-led forces of moral dictatorship must surely find a bitter pill to (here I go again!) er, swallow. (*they might choose to spit).
Insane in the membrane, I tell thee.
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December 9, 2014 at 11:25 am -
Just an observation: if you have visited many BDSM porn sites (I assume not?), you may find that spanking of men by females a very popular option.
But I’m with Petunia on this. Why watch porn if you have got an imagination? My internal porn cinema worked overtime as a youngster (now the reels are cracked and dusty), but watching someone else do something narrows imagination, not expands it (it’s a bit like reading the book before watching the film of the book – much better to read, imagine for yourself, and then see how someone else has interpreted it).
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December 9, 2014 at 11:33 am -
Now, don’t mention this to anyone but I once had a lodger who was a ‘name’ BDSM model with a huge following. Though BDSM was very much kept to her online identity, it was an enlightening and fun few months…
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December 9, 2014 at 2:55 pm -
I have a friend who a dominatrix for a couple of years; her work consisted of tying up men – always men – in uncomfortable positions, verbally abusing them, humiliating them, giving them a good whipping or spanking if required. Everything was consensual and agreed in advance, with a safety word or signal.
It was hardly never sexual, she explained to me; her clients were businessmen, managers and suchlike, who wanted to the relief of being completely controlled for a while instead of controlling. A single mother of four children, she greatly enjoyed her profession – it gave her a good living, she could work (out of a rented ‘dungeon’) when she liked and, most important, she was financially independent and could put two fingers up to the DWP.
Then a friend who worked on the local paper warned her that a tabloid hack was in town investigating the allegedly perverted sexual tastes of a local politician – who happened to be one of her clients. She had her children to think about, so all she could do was to instantly shut up shop and go back to the life of a workless and penniless single parent.
It seems that we have now gone right back to the puritanical fifties.-
December 9, 2014 at 2:59 pm -
Dammed typo – that should be ‘hardly EVER sexual’.
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December 9, 2014 at 9:37 pm -
This “friend” Mrs Grimble, did she have blue frizzed out hair and a big grin on her face?
I ask only for information, there is no judgement involved. The Raccoon Arms might be infinitely more interesting with a resident dominatrix. Then again perhaps I am inferring too much based on youthful attempts to avoid identification when requesting information about VD’s “for a friend”;)
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December 10, 2014 at 7:25 am -
I’ve always thought of Anna as a kind of dominatrix (whip in hand but no kinky stuff).
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December 10, 2014 at 9:32 am -
@ windsock I’ve always thought of Anna as a kind of dominatrix (whip in hand but no kinky stuff)..
Perhaps there is a rather important distinction to be made between a strong female and a Dominatrix……the former the real Mc Coy who constitutes a reality without the need for props, the latter a contrived theatrical construction of what some might think a strong female to be where props are all important.-
December 10, 2014 at 9:56 am -
Indeed. My tongue was within cheek.
But you raise another interesting concept. Maybe sex in itself is inherently theatrical – we all perform roles and assume positions expected of us, which is why porn is appealing? (Just a spur of the moment thought, not deeply thought through so feel free to demolish the argument.)
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December 9, 2014 at 11:02 am -
“Included on the list was the good old ‘English Perversion’ ……. Aggressive Whipping ” Like wot jockeys do to encourage their steeds over Aintree’s hedges?
“Perhaps best of all lewd and licentious activities viewed as unacceptable on the list is ‘…… Verbal Abuse – Regardless if Consensual’. ” That’s buggered PMQ.
“Incidentally, I’m not and never have been a devotee of pornography. Frankly, I find it …. repetitive ……..” You’re a masochist then?
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December 9, 2014 at 11:11 am -
The non-English-speaking world seem far more Adult about the whole thing if you ask me.
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/berlin-kreuzberg-in-den-siebzigern-fotos-von-siebrand-rehberg-fotostrecke-120306-18.html -
December 9, 2014 at 11:12 am -
One of the problems now is that the smart phone is so all seeing, all hearing, and the stuff it records is so easily dispersed around phones far and wide. Thus coming within the orbit of young kids by accident or design. Already the age at which kids are doing sexual stuff is falling below the age of criminality, so I read somewhere recently. Just as the over 11 year old lads used to gather in the corner of the hockey field at grammar to view porno mags; so will kids view really naughty stuff on their Smarts or someone elses Smart. Possibly they could be very young. We played at doctors and nurses when under ten, as I recall. Now some kids could take murky steps into copy cat stuff at a somewhat younger age. I still marvel at how innocent, yet tolerant most adults were years ago. These days lots of what used to be said is out of bounds. What was tolerated is criticised and even prosecuted in a snooty judgement of fifties and sixties and hedonistic seventies behaviour. As if behaviour now is any better. Very very NOT. King Canute springs to mind, as much of this porno is probably of foreign origin.
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December 9, 2014 at 11:23 am -
There is a song, from 1993, by the Manic Street Preachers called Life Becoming A Landslide with the line “My idea of love comes from a childhood glimpse of pornography” – but I’m sure they aren’t talking about finding a copy of Mayfair in your Dad’s garage.
Viewing the kind of stuff freely available online now has to be disturbing to a pre-pubescent child, but age is a fine line. At the age of 10, the idea of kissing girls or any sexual activity would have disgusted me, by 12 I was rummaging through the garage everytime I was able to in search of my Dad’s couple of porno mags so I could gaze at the beautiful female form whilst nursing a semi… and that’s how it is. Your sexuality should arrive when the time is right for you – earlier in some, later in others – and it’s primarily pre-pubescent children who should warrant the protection of the law. The line is drawn at 18 now – at that stage in my life I was almost 7 years on from starting puberty… yet I never felt overly pressured to translate my perma-horn into having sex for the sake of having sex.
But I cannot imagine how I would have reacted to viewing hardcore pornography as a child, or how that would have affected my psyche.-
December 9, 2014 at 11:41 am -
* I cannot imagine how I would have reacted to viewing hardcore pornography as a child, or how that would have affected my psyche. *
I watched one of the Saw movies on TV not that long ago and just saw (sic) sick, sadistic gorno that I felt should be “banned”. On the other hand I watched “Hostel” and found it quite a good movie and the gorno seemed not gratuitous but rather part of the necessary background to give ‘meaning’ to the movie. I can recall seeing “Midnight Express” at the cinema in 1978 and finding the jail-torturing scenes very disturbing at the time and I was in my early 20’s. I saw the hand-chopping scene of “Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte” probably when I was barely ten, and relished the imagery as a “pinnacle of horror” for years afterwards. I used to watch Bela Lugosi movies on late-night movie-slots as a teenager and be spoked as I went up the dark stairs to bed. I can recall mistakenly allowing my toddler daughter to watch “It” alongside her older brother, having no comprehension of how scary Tim Curry’s clown was going to be.
What is most wrong about the current censorious set of mind is that young people are being encouraged by neurotic adults to perceive themselves as likely to damaged like a broken doll that can never be fixed, rather than encouraged to just pass through another life experience.
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December 9, 2014 at 11:35 am -
A couple of helpful definitions…
‘Erotic’ – Using a feather ‘Kinky’ – Using the whole chicken
‘Kinky’ – It’s only ever kinky the first time you do it.-
December 9, 2014 at 12:03 pm -
Everybody’s going for those kinky boots, kinky boots,
It’s a manly kind of fashion that you borrowed from the brutes,Fashion magazines say wear ‘em,
And you rush to obey like the women in a harem.And whether you’re in evening dress or bathing suits,
You wear boots, boots, kinky boots.There are twenty million women wearing kinky boots, kinky boots,
Footwear manufacturers are gathering the fruits,Advertising men say try ‘em,
And you all run amok like a flock of sheep to buy ‘em.Sweet girls, street girls,
Grumpy little beat girls,
Square girls, cool girls,
Sexy little schoolgirls,
Maiden aunties,
Mayfair debutantes,
They all dig those boots.Leather is so kinky,
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December 9, 2014 at 1:07 pm -
Q: Why did the pervert cross the road?
A: Because his penis was jammed inside the chicken.-
December 10, 2014 at 9:51 am -
Which came first? The chicken or the pervert?
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December 9, 2014 at 12:35 pm -
Yes, but think of the cheeldren…
Slightly off-topic, but I was told by a reliable source that petrol filling stations in Germany make most of their money from selling blue films in the retail shop. The fuel side of the business operates around break-even. Could there be a similar opportunity in “puritan” Blighty I wonder?
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December 9, 2014 at 1:10 pm -
That might possibly have been true once, but I would guess the internet has ravaged the German porn DVD industry as much as it has in the rest of the world.
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December 9, 2014 at 1:38 pm -
If it’s banned or made very difficult or expensive to access on the internet, the DVD industry might well enjoy an upsurge.
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December 9, 2014 at 2:06 pm -
I think it was Goebbels who said ‘ Tell the people it is for the sake of the children and they will do anything you ask’. I hope I am correct here as I cannot now find the quote, I am attaching a link to other Goebbels quotes which seem to have been taken to heart by todays politicians and FemiNazis.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/281832.Joseph_Goebbels
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December 9, 2014 at 3:29 pm -
Had his wife poison all six of his daughters didn’t he? And then herself. Not sure he wasn’t madder than Adolf.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:22 pm -
Helga the eldest child on autopsy, was found to be badly bruised and to have a broken jaw. It would appear that the sedative given to all the children before they were poisoned was not effective on her, so she was held down and the poison forced into her mouth thus breaking her jaw. However are the politcians in our own parliament who are wetting themselves with excitement at the allegations of multiple child rape and murder committed by other politicians in the 80’s, not just as evil and mad.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:27 pm -
Well, they seem slightly crackers about the Russians too just now, so maybe you’re onto something
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December 9, 2014 at 2:27 pm -
I find it astounding that a Conservative/Liberal government is intending such repressive legislation. One might expect it from the statist control-freakery of Labour, but Cameron’s lot allegedly stand for the protection of personal freedoms.
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December 9, 2014 at 3:26 pm -
UKIP
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December 9, 2014 at 3:52 pm -
They don’t mind porn as long as it’s not immigrant porn, and they regard videos of the EU parliament as the most vile of perversions…
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December 9, 2014 at 4:25 pm -
All porn is foreign. No sex please. We’re British.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:56 pm -
Well – there’s food porn on the telly. That Nigella Lawson licking her fingers in such a suggestive way…
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December 10, 2014 at 7:26 am -
Don’t forget the poverty porn and the property porn too.
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December 9, 2014 at 3:48 pm -
Agree; what consenting adults do together in private is nobody’s business but their own, and what adults do on their own in private is nobody else’s business, including the government’s. However, there is the question of the relatively free availability of pornographic material on the interweb which may affect children and minors, and parental controls are not always infallible. I think education of children is probably the best way to limit any psychological damage; forewarned is forearmed. If they know that most porn is a very poor representation of what most people want from intimacy, and completely disconnected from any emotional connection, at least they have a context in which to view it a bit more safely, because view it they will, one way or another.
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December 9, 2014 at 3:54 pm -
Parents should control what their offspring are allowed to access – it’s not, or should not be, the business of the State.
But I agree – educate them to understand porn is not about loving intimate relationships (much easier by example if the parent(s) have such a relationship themselves…)
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December 9, 2014 at 10:09 pm -
It is clear that I was psychologically damaged as a child by Porn, and not because I accidentally came across the stuff but because from the age of twelve (before I even knew what masturbation was) I actively sought it out (initially courtesy of W.H.Smith – can I sue?). The argument that that porn should be kept away from children may be correct when one considers how I turned out, but as I was the instigator not the victim that argument seems hard to sustain.
There are by the way far worse things that the government actively encourage which do far more damage.
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December 10, 2014 at 9:55 am -
The shelves in WH Smith groan with child-porn. No wonder folk are getting more fucked up than my dad ever dreamed of.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2008/04/section.jpg-
December 10, 2014 at 3:58 pm -
Up above someone was saying that imagination was better than visual images – he must be a man with a wireless I suppose. MizLit is child porn – and of a nasty type up their with De Sade ‘reader I embuggered him’ – aimed at females (though apparently the Women’s Sections has been abolished in W.H.S as sexist) – the stuff I inadvertently now come across – Miss Austen, The Misses Eyre! They’ll be on the A’ level syllabus next I don’t wonder.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:03 pm -
There will be a number of scenes that will now have to be removed from the James Bond movies.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:12 pm -
Hit me with that rhythm stick,hit me ,hit me!
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
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December 9, 2014 at 4:16 pm -
We have progressed a long way from the days of my youth in the reign of King Harold* when a glimpse of a pubic hair or two was considered illegal pornography. The teenagers of today can now enjoy a wide range of pornographic productions involving men with men, women with women, black on white, and white on black, use of a variety of holes, apertures, and cavities, use of power tools, electric massagers, and prostheses–all of which will be of inestimable use to them as they mature and have toddlers waking them from their their Sunday mornings lies-in and which will fully compensate for the untimely loss of the News of the World with its titillating stories of how footballers practice scoring in their spare time.
Thank you, Mr. Cameron. Thank you, sir.
* Wilson not Hardrada.
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December 9, 2014 at 4:23 pm -
re. Public pubic: Wasn’t it the Sunday Times (of all rags) that broke some taboo or other, once upon a time? Must have been pre-Murdoch too. There’s a great old documentary on youtube (or portions of) when Murdoch was buying the NoW, with one of the BBC Dimbleby’s being ever so condescending towards the colonial chappie. No wonder Rupert ended up hating their guts…
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December 9, 2014 at 8:32 pm -
But I am told that, in modern pornography, there is no longer any such thing as pubic hair, the claimed reason why all young ladies are now apparently so keen to dispense with their newly-acquired rugs by various techniques of tonsorial torture.
(This is, of course, simply hearsay – I would never sully my own pure mind by watching such as Horny Housewives, Asian Babes, Debbie Does Dewsbury, Tits-R-Us, Jugs Journal, The Postman Always Rings My Bell Twice or other sordid titles of which I have no knowledge, honest).-
December 10, 2014 at 9:58 am -
The absence of hair makes them seem more child-like presumably.
I can recommend Victorian Porn. It’s not hard to find: “vintage porn” should do it (as if I need to tell you!).
Hirsute and healthy. The women even look like they’re enjoying it rather than enduring it, and definitely having fun. They’re all long dead now, which might put some people off I suppose.
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December 9, 2014 at 5:32 pm -
Slightly off topic but I was rather shocked when a friend sent the link for this YouTube clip ( it is probally my age 60’s ). The guy presenting it appears very agitated and uses strong language ( the C word ) but the women are no better.
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December 9, 2014 at 6:06 pm -
The camoron government live in a reality-free haze, believing only they can and MUST do something to control every action or desire of the plebs. If the government is not imposing windmills, illusory budget “cuts” or what you can/cannot ingest, (all totally ineffective and unwanted) on the plebs then their reason to “govern” seems unfulfilled.
This latest nonsense, even after ISIS have conclusively embarassed and proved that the government cannot now, nor ever will be able to control information transmission, does not deter the simpler feminists-ms May-from trying. It is pathetic, and shows them for what they are, simple-minded, abolitionists. They cannot comprehend that banning an item will inevitably rouse a greater demand, which will be fulfilled by others in the wide world.
If Britain is attempting to become the laughing-stock of the world, and I believe there is a very good case to think that, then this action supports the case well.
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December 9, 2014 at 8:36 pm -
When the history books of this period are written, Cameron’s list of key achievements will feature gay weddings and a plastic-bag tax, errr … that’s about it.
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December 9, 2014 at 9:22 pm -
You could be right about the “achievements”, but I believe he will only be remembered for what he has promised but failed to do. An ever-lengthening list added to daily by his bizarre attempts to appear decisive and announce policy through the news media not parliament.
His place in history will be as the worst Prime Minister ever, worse than Wilson or Brown who at least understood how a parliamentary democracy works.
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December 9, 2014 at 9:02 pm -
Men (and I assume that Petunia is not of that sex) do respond to visual sexual stimulation, and so I am not going to wax morally high and mighty other than to reflect that the first mag I bought and which I soon considered to be the tamest of the tame is now considered the worst. The list of now forbidden erotica seems to be a pix-and-mix selection without rhyme or reason. Had I been Home Secretary (and its her department that is surely responsible) and were I in the banning mood there are at least three other genres of Porn – left entirely untouched – which I would not hesitate in outlawing. I would also in banning mood be motivated to outlaw MizLit and Mills and Boon/Twilight/50 Shades stuff and I could surely do so on reasoning no less odd – if not identical – to that used to justify the present Amendment.
The ban is of course Misandrist in intent.
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December 10, 2014 at 4:16 pm -
I have been burning to say what the three other genres (or should that be sub-genres) of Porn which I don’t much care for are, and why.
They are:
1. Inter-racial Cuckold porn. I am surprised that is not outlawed as being racist (let alone anti-marriage). Were I black I would feel insulted being seen as Mandingo.
2. Granny Porn (by which I mean less the glamorous than the geriatric). Is not the sight of a ninety year old, ‘sans teeth’ and probably a lot else at the least an appalling way to allow the very elderly to be treated. Far worse than (some) child Porn IMHO – ah yes, but she consented. Duh.
3. (adult) Incest Porn – especially of the Father Daughter variety – and the fact that the parties are both over sixteen is surely not the point, although the act itself would be illegal. Oddly I find that not entirely unerotic though I have never been a daughter nor a father (natural or by adoption) and the thought of it in real life repulses me as does the other sexual taboo Homosexuality. The Home Office has yet to grasp that reality and thought are not the same thing.
These three genres are however clearly entirely acceptable to The Home Office, along with Face Showers (I never much cared for that either come to think of it).
As recently as about twenty years ago I was unsuccessful in The Court of Appeal on an appeal from the Mags on the confiscation of a Gay Porn Mag. How times change, for would the learned justices now risk the tag of Homophobia though I doubt that the law on importation has changed?
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December 10, 2014 at 5:23 pm -
There’s tons of cougars with their son’s friend, but sugar daddies with their daughter’s friend seem somewhat scarce.
I recall that as savilisation bit the Daily Express porno channels were still advertising schoolgirl fantasies. If only I had made screengrabs. History slips through the fingers faster every day.
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December 9, 2014 at 9:02 pm -
In the 60s it was the Left who advocated more freedom for consensual behaviour. Later the Right were more pro-freedom, against the NuLabor control freaks. But nowadays the mainstream “left” and “right” have converged in this as in most other issues. For more on Cameron’s control-freakery, see the link below. It’s not just about sexual alternatives- spiritual alternatives are also considered dangerous. We are being gently slid into a world where the only permitted flavour is vanilla, the only permitted colour is magnolia, and permitted religious practices will be defined by the Home Office.
http://www.reachinglight.com/infographic-uk-filter-block-esoteric-content-worldwide-implications/
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December 11, 2014 at 6:17 pm -
You could put it another way:
In any organisation, be it political or a business, control freaks get to the top and re-make the organisation in service of their own ends, i.e. power and control.
Thus the political parties converge on controlling things.Meanwhile actual lefties and righties who believe in freedom are stuck out in the cold or jailed because they did something the control freaks don’t like.
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December 10, 2014 at 8:07 am -
“Child protection” falls into the same category as “if it saves one life it’s worth it”, meaning that you can justify any old nonsense if you use either of those as the reasons.
Politics these days seems driven by pandering to noisy, vociferous, small minded minorities and pressure groups.-
December 10, 2014 at 10:20 am -
“Child protection” falls into the same category as “if it saves one life it’s worth it”
The l’oreal rule perhaps.
http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-QO237_loreal_EA_20111114074847.jpg
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