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Extreme pornography

Extreme pornopgraphy is a legal term used and introduced by the government of the United Kingdom as part of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, that made possession of images deemed to be 'extreme pornography' a criminal offence from 26th January 2009.

It is defined as pictorial material (moving or still) that is assumed to have been produced solely for sexual arousal that is "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character", and portrays any of the following:

• an act which threatens a person's life,
• an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person's anus, breasts or genitals,
• an act which involves or appears to involve sexual interference with a human corpse,
• a person performing or appearing to perform an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive),

and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that any such person or animal was real.

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