What’s changing

The UK government has announced that possessing or publishing pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation will become a criminal offence. Ministers say the new offence closes a harmful gap: while non-fatal strangulation is already illegal, showing it in online porn has not been prohibited. The policy is framed as a measure to protect women and girls and to curb the normalization of sexual violence.

Why now

An independent review concluded that such content is widespread online and contributes to violent behaviour by presenting choking and suffocation as sexually acceptable. Technology Minister Liz Kendall called the material “vile and dangerous,” arguing that those who post or promote it are fuelling a culture of abuse that has no place in society. The government i

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