OK it's ranting time. I'm currently filled with righteous indignation and furious anger. Why? Let me explain.

I was previously under the pleasant delusion that my country was currently some kind of shining example of a nice place to live, and proof that democracy works. It actually turns out that it isn't really, and it doesn't really, or it's a sham. I used to think that all those other countries that we went to bomb were the "bad guys", and all the stupid stuff in the past - like women not having the vote, it being illegal to be gay and stuff, were ancient history, and everything was cool now. Not so!

If you've casually heard the misleading news about the Dangerous Pictures Act, you'd probably be under the misapprehension that the idea was to ban footage of genuine sexual crimes. Were it so, this would be well and good. What's actually happening though is that having some porn in which consenting adults are getting a bit too freaky for whoever is arbitrarily deciding whether they are being offended or not, can get you three years in the slammer. The rules are really subjective and vague. No one is really sure what is allowed and what is not.

Some things are clear. Bestiality and Scat are covered. The first one seems reasonableish. Animals can't give consent. Scat i don't have a problem with. I haven't seen two girls one cup myself, but if somebody else wants to that's their business. What's really messed up is the bit about "violent pornography", which is really vague. Sex is essentially a violent act. Like motor racing. Energetic and forceful. Where they draw the line between legally acceptable and unacceptable is not defined. Spanking is arguable. Ball busting is arguable. Tentacle monsters are arguable. Rough sex. Catfighting. Etc.

What's really worrying is the way this got put through parliament. Won't go into detail. I could rant a lot more, but couldn't say anything that hasn't been said a million times before. Others have put it far more eloquently. Check out [link], [link], or google. Loads of great articles, for what it's worth. There are some cool people around. Some consolation.

Basically it's dawned on me that we're living in an Orwellian nightmare. Melodramatic maybe, but you get the idea. A significant number of our elected representatives are either puritannical fools, or simply not paying attention. It's possible that something somewhere on my harddrive might fall foul of this crazy law. No way of knowing unless some jobsworth decides to send the boys around to steal my computer and look at all the stuff. I imagine most other guys with computers are as "morally corrupt" or whatever as I am, but that's no defense.