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07/06/2013
Campaigners Call For More Action On 'Rape Porn'
Campaigners have written to David Cameron calling for more action on so-called “rape porn”.
The letter, signed by Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz and more than 100 other academics, experts and campaign groups, calls on the PM to close a loophole that allows this form of extreme pornography to continue to circulate online.
Legislation introduced in 2008 was meant to make possession of "extreme" pornography an offence, but the campaigners say this legislation does not go far enough to include simulated images of rape attacks.
In England and Wales, pornography based on staged rape scene is not illegal, as it must feature actors aged over 18.
Campaigner claim that the "contradictory message about the seriousness with which sexual violence is taken", and promotes "sexual abuse of women and girls in England and Wales."
However, according to the BBC the Ministry of Justice recently concluded that there was "no evidence" that such material harms society.
(MH/IT)
The letter, signed by Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz and more than 100 other academics, experts and campaign groups, calls on the PM to close a loophole that allows this form of extreme pornography to continue to circulate online.
Legislation introduced in 2008 was meant to make possession of "extreme" pornography an offence, but the campaigners say this legislation does not go far enough to include simulated images of rape attacks.
In England and Wales, pornography based on staged rape scene is not illegal, as it must feature actors aged over 18.
Campaigner claim that the "contradictory message about the seriousness with which sexual violence is taken", and promotes "sexual abuse of women and girls in England and Wales."
However, according to the BBC the Ministry of Justice recently concluded that there was "no evidence" that such material harms society.
(MH/IT)
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