A mass face sit-in? #PornProtest to hit Westminster

10 December 2014 - 15:51 By Times LIVE
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About 500 people are st to descend on Westminster on Friday to have simulated sex in an anti-censorship protest.

According to London24 #PornProtest will even have a "Sex Factor" gameshow with an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "face sitting."

The protest will be fully clothed.

There will apparently be "facial colour charts for health and safety to ensure no one is being suffocated" during the record attempt according to the UK's Independent.

The protest was triggered by new rules on what porn can and cannot be filmed in the UK, rules which include a ban on face-sitting.

The full list of activities deemed unfit for UK smut is as follows:

  • Spanking
  • Caning
  • Aggressive whipping
  • Penetration by any object "associated with violence"
  • Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of  if consensual)
  • Urolagnia (known as "water sports")
  • Role-playing as non-adults
  • Physical restraint
  • Humiliation
  • Female ejaculation
  • Strangulation
  • Facesitting
  • Fisting

The protest is the brainchild of Sex Worker of the Year 2013 Charlotte Rose, who said, "These laws are not only sexist but they taking away people’s choices without consent."

Porn producer Pandora Blake was similarly shocked by the new laws, saying in a blog post (NSFW) that "facefucking is permitted, but facesitting is not; likewise consuming male ejaculate is permitted, but consuming female ejaculate is not.

"The new legislation props up patriarchal models of male sexual dominance and criminalises femdom and feminist producers whose work provides alternative models of sexual interaction."

Sex blogger Greta Christina meanwhile was surprised as spanking landing on the list, saying, "Banning the production of spanking porn in England is like banning the production of cars in Detroit, or the production of pretentious overpriced cocktails in San Francisco.

"Spanking porn is one of the country’s major exports.

"The British Board of Film Censors really needs to take some pride in their cultural heritage."

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