New laws in force - BDSM.

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Wondering what your thoughts are on this new legislation?

This isn't my bag, so it doesn't affect me personally. I understand that some people (majority women) may be led into these things or feel coerced, and the law is in place to protect them.

For those of you who enjoy strangulation or suffocation as, and with, consenting adults, what are your thoughts? Should it be illegal to keep photos of things everyone has agreed for your own personal pleasure?

"New pornography offences now in force in England and Wales
On Friday 6th November 2026, new offences under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 came into force. It is now a criminal offence in England and Wales to possess or publish pornographic images that realistically show strangulation or suffocation. The government says the aim is to tackle material that normalises harmful or illegal behaviour.
The maximum penalty is two or three years for possession, depending on the offence, and five years for publication. 'Publish' includes sending or sharing an image. Possession can mean anything stored on a device or in a cloud account."

It's within living memory that the majority of online porn would have been considered unlawful in most jurisdictions.

The idea that anything goes is very recent. The better question is how it's come to this.

Have used porn, enjoy BDSM, not into strangulation per se, but do like a man to have firm, masterful hands, including on my neck!
I’m also the mother of teen boys-the more regulation of porn the better imho-desires, kinks and all, should come from your own and your partners’ brains.

I'm very glad that I'm too old to have been a teenage boy when Internet porn was around. It would have fried my brain.