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Nanny State

'Sit on Santa's Face,' and Other Scenes from the U.K. #PornProtest

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.12.2014 9:50 AM

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Earlier this week, I blogged about an event taking place in London today to protest the U.K.'s new regulations for online porn. The censorship-happy British government is attempting to ban a range of erotic acts from web porn depiction, including bondage, strangulation, female ejaculation, "water sports," and face-sitting. For more on the new regs, see here. For a glimpse of the scene in front of Parliament today, scroll on… 

Do yourself a favor and watch this one with the sound on: 

Sit-In:

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First, they came for the squirters…

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All I want for Christmas is…

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Because you know it's in your head already anyway…

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The stuff nightmares or dreams are made of? Different strokes for different folks…

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Author Nichi Hodgson with feminist porn director Petra Joy

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Oh, the Britishness of it all!

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True story:

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Can't stop, won't stop

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Fuck state censorship, in all it's forms

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See more under the #PornProtest hashtag on Twitter.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.

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