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The real reason you have the ban on choking porn in the uk right now 1. It's a zero cost thing and a distraction. The UK’s actual problems: stagnant wages, energy costs, the NHS backlog, housing shortages, street crime or grooming gangs, all require billions of pounds the treasury doesn't have and years of painful structural reform. Passing a ban on choking and incest porn costs the government £0, can collect fines and takes three pages of legislative text, it hands the government an instant "Tough on Violence Against Women and Girls" headline. Better yet for politicians, it is a perfect parliamentary trap: no MP is going to stand up in the House of Commons and go on the record voting for incest and strangulation porn. It sails through unchallenged because opposing it is career suicide since the brits have not lived in Eastern Europe and lack the cynicism and awarness on how politicians can do whatever they want as long as they frame it correctly. 2. Lobbying PipelineIt feels sudden to the public The media only reported on it right before the November 2026 enforcement deadline, but it has been moving through the Westminster pipeline for more that three years. I remember covering this in 2021 when they wanted to ban choking, caning and midget porn. In 2023, the previous Conservative government appointed Baroness Bertin (David Cameron’s former press secretary) to lead an Independent Pornography Review. When her report dropped in February 2025, the new Labour government eagerly adopted it. In the UK, there is a deeply entrenched coalition between socially conservative peers and "second-wave" anti pornography feminist NGOs. Both groups share a paternalistic worldview: they refuse to accept that consenting adults including millions of women, as the demographic data shows, might willingly explore rough sex or taboo roleplay on their own terms. Instead, they treat the public like impressionable children who only do what they see on a screen, arguing that if the state bans the video, the behavior will vanish. This is peak anglosphere delusion. Believing that monkey see monkey do. The woke failed exactly because of this , believing that if everything people consume is woke they will become woke. The opposite in fact happened. 3. Why Criminalize the Viewer? (The Online Safety Act Shortcut) The weirdest part of the law is making simple possession by an ordinary citizen a crime carrying two years in prison, rather than just regulating commercial studios. The government has no intention and zero prison capacity to arrest millions of British guys who have a face-sitting or step-sibling clip saved in a folder. They criminalized possession as a bureaucratic lever. Because major adult sites, X, Reddit, and AI generators are hosted outside the UK, British law cannot directly prosecute foreign producers for filming consensual acts that are legal in the US or Europe. However, by making possession by a UK citizen a criminal offense, the government could legally slot choking and incest porn into the Online Safety Act 2023 as a Priority Offence. That classification legally forces foreign platforms to proactively scan, filter, and geo block the content for UK users or face fines of up to 10% of their global turnover from Ofcom. Lawmakers casually turned millions of ordinary citizens into technical criminals just to trigger a regulatory mechanism against foreign websites and create the infrastructure to allow other things such as "hate speech" or whatever the government wants the british public to be prevented from seeing later.