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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Amend s63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act so as to explicitly target images of sexual abuse and to prevent the persecution of consenting adults, whether gay or straight, whose sex life involves consensual activity such as bondage, discipline, sadomasochism or role-playing. More details
Submitted by Adam Taylor – Deadline to sign up by: 02 February 2010 – Signatures: 70
More details from petition creator
Section 63 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 makes it a criminal offense to possess an 'extreme pornographic image'. This law is not evidence based and did not have proper parliamentary scrutiny.
As the new law stands, thousands of consenting adults who enjoy consensual, staged fantasy images of bondage and other kinks could have their lives, and that of their families, wrecked for looking at images of activities where no crime was committed.
We propose to amend this legislation so as to explicitly target people who collect images of real abuse. Similar amendments were introduced in the House of Lords but were rejected by the Government without good reason.
An amendment to provide a defense of reasonable belief of consent and absence of serious injury should be brought forward immediately.
Current signatories
Adam Taylor, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- P Morgan (no real victim, no real crime)
- Rob Levy
- Ben Thorns
- Keith Underhill
- Vanessa Illingworth
- Debbie Shine
- Ros Hook
- Manuel Sebastian Lara Bisch
- John Chew
- Clair Lewis
- Katie Millien
- Gill Fernley (government has no business in the bedrooms of the nation)
- Michelle Knight
- David Tong
- Graham Marsden
- Ciaran Osborne
- Jason Rothwell
- Richard Healing
- Tony Brooks
- Kevin Green
- David Taylor
- Sarah Brooks
- T Morgan (stay out of my sex life and I'll stay out of yours)
- sarah dorman
- Clifford McLenehan
- David Horton
- Lucy Swan
- Daniel Barnard
- Adrian Cribb
- Boyd Walters
- Jeffrey Lane
- Ben Whittaker
- kevin Burctoolla
- Edward Bromage
- Katie Moakler
- Jon S. Stock
- a slaughter
- Allan Balsillie
- Shaun Hollingworth
- Franco Cavazzi
- Ian Foxon
- Peter Tatchell
- Nicholas Morland
- Malcolm Sleath
- Hugh Black (fighting for his rights, freedom and liberty)
- George Lloyd
- Andrew Fox
- Mr Jon Dracup
- P. Ramsay
- Stephen Harry
- Jonathan Fuller
- Sally Bain
- J Smith
- s mahmood
- Richard Carling
- Louise Fleming
- Richard Gadsby
- Christopher Carroll
- Charmaine Julia Briscoe
- Kevin Steinhardt
- Terry Starr
- Benjamin Pearce
- Sophie Jones
- James Edward Tarlton
- A Garbett
- Anne Kasica, the-shg.org
- C Carpenter
- Nathan Gibbons
- Siobhan Trethewey
