A key clause not included in the headline and only briefly mentioned in the article is that this doesn’t ban all step-porn. It only bans the step-porn if one of the actors pretends to be under 18.
The first of these vital measures will ban anyone from possessing or publishing harmful pornography that shows incest between family members, and sex between step or foster relations where one person is pretending to be under 18.
A further amendment will criminalise the publication and possession of pornography where an adult is roleplaying as a child.
That seems like a weirdly specific way to just say that age of consent laws apply to the stated ages of the actors. The UK’s age of consent is 16, or 18 if the other person is in a position of power (like a step-parent is).
A key clause not included in the headline and only briefly mentioned in the article is that this doesn’t ban all step-porn. It only bans the step-porn if one of the actors pretends to be under 18.
From gov.uk:
(edited to update link)
Isn’t an adult pretending to be a child in porn already illegal? That seems like something that would always have been illegal.
yea that is considered CP, maybe its different for each country.
It sounds like that was not actually illegal in the UK, based on the article. However, I am not a UK resident nor expert in porn law.
In that case is it still legal if they’re not pretending related? Seems that would be the bigger fish here.
At least according to the article, the law does not appear to address that.
That seems like a weirdly specific way to just say that age of consent laws apply to the stated ages of the actors. The UK’s age of consent is 16, or 18 if the other person is in a position of power (like a step-parent is).
You know, when politicians doth protest too much I begin to wonder why they doth.