Since serious violence in a sexual context is now illegal, can we be arrested for having photos of Abu Ghraib on our PC's ?

The report claims the phrase 'consenting adults' can't be applied to necrophilia. Necrophilia could be consenting just by adding an extra tickbox on the organ donar card. In fact, that would be a good way to boost the number of people carrying organ donar cards, give the necrophilliacs 'first-choice' over anyone who dies that isn't carrying an organ-donar card. Think of all the all the children needing transplants that this would save ! 'Save the children, give the gimp granny' would be an apt slogan.

I notice while outlawing all intercourse and oral sex with animals, it doesn't mention hand-jobs -Rebecca Loos heaves a sigh of relief. So could I give a police horse a hand-job in public legally ? And since humans are animals, could a judge interpret this as outlawing all intercourse and oral sex between any humans ? Are we as a nation 'switching over to digital' ie dildos and IVF ?

This just gives more power to the nerds. Even deleted images are prosecutable so this law will probably be applied retrospectively even if this isn't intended to. Laws aren't meant to be able to be applied retrospectively I think, and this one will be simply because you don't get a legally or technically reliable date stamp from undeleted files, or any file for that matter.


Porn-surfing bank supremo Michael Soden was caught with his browser down last week by the very same staff he outsourced to HP at the start of his reign at the Bank of Ireland. Soden hit the headlines last year in Ireland when staff took industrial action in protest of the department's shift to Hewlett Packard. Staff were unhappy about the prospect of becoming HP employees, as they had enjoyed considerable perks at the Bank of Ireland: favourable mortgage and loan deals for instance. Now it seems that he has been forced to resign thanks to the very department which he sent merrily on its way.
Staff informed the bank that they had discovered pornography on Soden's machine on Wednesday last week, during routine maintenance. Soden resigned his post on Saturday, after the internal investigation into the discovery was leaked to the local press.
It would be disingenuous to suggest that the "routine maintenance" was anything other than that, but it's clear that Soden's machine was thoroughly attended to.
The outsourcing move was Soden's second high-profile decision after his appointment as chief executive. His first was to update the acceptable use policy that prohibits staff from accessing porn using company equipment.
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/01/outsourcing_porn/

If you're reading that and thinking that *you're* Ok because your sexual tastes and entertainment preferences are 'normal' bear in mind that people who squawk about the need to ban "pornography" are projecting their own sexual phobias and using entirely subjective definitions or what is extreme or unacceptable. The HO consultation on the proposed new laws was a complete pig's breakfast of myth, supposition, prejudice and outright bull poopoo. For one thing, no attempt is made to distinguish between posing as a consenting adult actor for photographs that look as though violence is being committed (but it's all ketchup and paid performers) and assaults committed on unwilling participants, which is not only reprehensible but already illegal.
It's also very important to remember that there is NO evidence at all that looking at an image will make the mildest, most socially proactive individual suddenly run amok with a meat cleaver.

These proposals need resisting just as much as all the other ghastly ideas this Government is endeavouring to make law in an effort to give themselves unlimited powers to snoop on, harass and demonise harmless citizens.