Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.
Both the possession and publication of such material will be a criminal offence, under amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.
Online platforms would also be required to proactively detect and remove such material or face enforcement action via media regulator Ofcom.
Online pornography depicting women being choked is to be banned, following a review that found such images are rife and have helped establish the act as a sexual norm.
The government confirmed the possession and publication of images showing strangulation and suffocation will be criminalised, as part of a crackdown on violent pornography.
While non-fatal strangulation is already an offence, its online depiction is not currently illegal.
[Conservative] Baroness Bertin cautioned that people acting out choking in their sex lives “may face devastating consequences”.
they aren’t banning it based on whether it’s non-consensual, it’s any porn that features strangulation or choking …
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