Concern about online material depicting unconscious women despite UK rape laws. Warning distressing content

I read this article earlier today. Later I caught up with the thread about the Metro's defamatory article about JKR. It's issued a full apology and I clicked on the link to read it. Below that there was a link to an article about somnaphilia. Apparently it's 'hella hot'.

This is so depressing.

A Times investigation finds the material has had millions of views on platforms such as X, Reddit and Pornhub, despite UK laws banning depictions of rape.

Explicit photos and videos portraying sleeping and unconscious women have had millions of views across platforms such as X, Reddit and Pornhub and are available to view in the UK using simple search terms despite extreme pornography laws banning depictions of rape.

Crime survey data for England and Wales for the year ending March 2025 shows that almost a quarter of all victims of rape were either unconscious or asleep during the attack, yet according to Watts this kind of crime “is as silent and as unbelieved as domestic violence was 20 to 30 years ago”.

www.thetimes.com/article/e523c7f3-0bfe-4d16-af7f-5a7667ab92da?shareToken=8b3f4535b776d221b95bc134260b69c1