Lowestoft’s Labour MP Jess Asato, who calls herself the author of the ban on strangulation porn coming into force on Friday, spent the weekend on X explaining her own law. Mostly wrongly…
When one user pointed out that nobody has ever choked to death giving oral sex, Asato replied with a 2023 article on oral sex and throat cancer. The article is about HPV and does not mention choking, gagging, or porn – its answer is vaccinating boys. What is she going to do – ban blowjobs?
Asato then linked a study on choking during sex, only for someone to point out its abstract concludes that young people should get “appropriate education and information”. Asato replied that sex education is already compulsory but will not work. Thanks for the source, Jess…
She also assured users that “face-sitting without obstructing breathing is unlikely to be prohibited”. The MoJ’s guidance, published last month, says suffocation needs no pressure on the neck and could mean covering someone’s mouth and nose. Asato wrong again…
Not to go on about it too much but the BBFC, which she cites, has called face-sitting “life-endangering”. The MoJ also admits neither “strangulation” nor “suffocation” is defined, leaving both to the court in each case. Possession of this innocuous stuff gets you two years…
Asato, says the new law simply brings online porn “into parity” with offline rules, and posted the BBFC’s R18 refusals as proof, including “choking or gagging during oral sex”. BBFC refusal stops a film being sold – owning an unclassified DVD has never been a crime. Possession, though, now carries two years. Some parity…
On LinkedIn, Asato, who said last week that the Online Safety Act is “clearly not strong enough,” boasts that age verification already stops children accessing porn. On X, she defended the additional ban for adults because young people learn a “sexual script” from porn. Which is it?
The main point is that Labour MPs are legislating against consensual sexual acts and campaigning against blowjobs and cunnilingus instead of literally anything else. There’s a ‘good growth and bad growth’ joke in there somewhere…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”