Members of Australia's Parliament are considering a prohibition on pornography depicting strangulation and choking. Tanya Plibersek, a Labor MP and the social services minister for the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, announced the
government's intent over the weekend, with other leaders confirming the move. Plibersek sexplained: There is something wrong with a situation where 60% of young people say they've experienced strangulation. This is not
sex education. It's not real life.
A spokesperson for Prime Minister Albanese's office told News.com.au, The Albanese Government is deeply concerned about young people being exposed to sexual strangulation and other harmful behaviours
through online content such as pornography. Other reports indicate that Australian Attorney-General Michelle Rowland is working with Plibersek and other senior Labor and Liberal MPs to outlaw the practice and criminalize it. Inspiration for the
ban has been drawn from the United Kingdom. Parliament in the U.K. adopted amendments to a sweeping Crime and Policing Bill that outlawed depictions of strangulation in online pornographic content, even if the content is produced consensually between
parties. I am not sure that Australia or the UK have worked out the practicalities of such a ban. This material is commonplace and not website is going to trawl through all their videos to cut out such content so the only practical way to stop
this on foreign websites is to block them all.
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