Real perversion is seeing one's own inclinations as the norm, and calling anything else a disease that needs to be rooted out. To Britain's eternal shame, homosexuality was not fully decriminalised until the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000, and some draw the line as late as 2003 when Section 28 was repealed in England and Wales (in Scotland in 2000). The same sentiment that underlies homophobia is also the cause of misogyny, racism, religious fanaticism, and a few dozen other evils.
With queer-bashing being no longer socially acceptable, how do we accommodate the unappeasable desire of common folk to see 'abnormal' people suffer? For the bunch of perverts also known as the Labour Party, this has proven to be rather easy: think up new kinds of sexual crimes. They can't be blamed for lack of imagination.
"If no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offence," he said.
With that partly in mind, the government is tabling an amendment that would allow couples to keep pictures of themselves engaged in consensual acts - but not to distribute them.
How about two couples engaged in consensual acts together? Can the pictures be distributed among themselves as long as each of the four participants appears in the pictures? But then who is to operate the camera?
All this would be comical if the bill did not represent yet another excuse to put thousands of people in jail for victimless crimes.
the new act is designed to reflect the realities of the internet age
This cannot be said enough: You can free yourselves from some of the scourges inflicted on you by a totalitarian government, simply by encrypting your hard drives and any sensitive internet traffic. FreeOTFE and TrueCrypt are free.
Don't rely on NuLabour to protect what is left of your civil liberties.
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