It is absolutely mental to ban consensual pornography, with a sentence of up to 2 years for possession, just because it involves some BDSM that the landed gentry find distasteful.
this is why you have to be anti-censorship even in regards to content you PERSONALLY find morally objectionable btw. you give an inch, they’ll take a mile. there will be more bans.
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Harvey Milk said that ‘if a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.’ The eradication of the closet has been an ambition of queer liberation movements since forever. I’m saddened that there are people framing its endurance as a happy ending.
genital preference is obviously 100 percent fine but it’s important that we be kind to each other and not feel the need to publicly vocalize “disgust” for other peoples bodies.