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"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed" Michael Pritchard
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead" - Lucille Ball

They DID make it sound as if he had been watching snuff movies - I can't remeber the exact words but it was along the lines that he had been watching hours and hours of the strangulation of women.

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed" Michael Pritchard
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead" - Lucille Ball

Nigel Lickley QC wanted Tabak's internet usage to be included in the Crown's case against him but this was blocked by Mr Justice Field and the jury was not told about it.

Obviously the judge considered that the sites that Tabak visited was NOT relevant to the case.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

I had a similar thought on this, this morning. Wondered what kind of impact it would play on the scene, especially already having the violent pornography bill/act. It can only stand to make things much harder, or more we have to work hard to conceal what we do, even though 99.9% of the time it is innocent.

But today's Guardian made me very cross, by describing the porn he watched (presumably sex and submission site) as "disturbing."

I think we forget how odd a lot (most?) of people find the whole being beaten thing. I would still have thought the Guardian might have made the distinction about consensual strangulation/violence and nonconsensual, though. I'm disappointed. The hilarious thing about the kink.com sites is those bits at the end with smiling girls in dressing gowns saying how happy they are to have done it. Presumably done for legal reasons, but it is quite funny.

But prurience is universal. No one more prurient than me, tbh. Long may it reign. Though it's v hard if you only get your fix from the Guardian or occasional trips to the hairdresser. You get out of the loop.

She means coincidence as in 'the two things coincided'. They were concomitant, happened at the same time, overlapped, occurred in the same venue.

The word has been expanded to mean random and unconnected but it still means the above.

Although she actually wrote 'conicidence' which I don't think actually means anything, and I would suggest is either evidence of the dangers of glass-house-based stone throwing manoevres or a testament to the moreishness of a Vodka and Slimfast diet.

Here are some small words for you to look at. Aren't they tiny!

And well, when you reduce the number of people into BDSM to the number of people into breath play, then to the number of people who like looking at such images, then factor out the people who don't care about laws for whatever reason even if they do, you're left with a lot of "It doesn't affect me, why should I care".

I also agree with the various comments here - I noticed that with the "extreme porn" law, the broadsheets and the BBC were doing as much if not more of the bad reporting, whilst even the Daily Mail had a columnist actually criticise the law. It's as if they don't even see it controversial to refer to images as "sick", and assume there would be universal agreement on the issue - there's an interesting BBC article at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/08/al... where they note the response from readers challenged their assumptions on this. (Sadly after this, the BBC often reverted to just publishing a pro-legislation article every time Longhurst opened her mouth, but at least they acknowledge the response at this point.)

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Edited 29 Oct 11, 2:30 PM by emark

"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed" Michael Pritchard
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead" - Lucille Ball

Interesting! But I somehow don't think so. Rather than having been driven to such an extreme act, he could have been expressing himself differently in places that would accept breath play, etc. Of course, we don't know - you're right - but I so hope he's NOT one of us!