UK to ban 'barely legal' pornography and step-relative sexual content
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Summary
The UK is set to ban 'barely legal' pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives, with peers voting by narrow margins to prohibit videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life. The legislation aims to regulate intimate image sharing and addresses concerns that such content normalizes the sexualization of children, promotes the idea that children consent, and fuels demand for real child abuse material.
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Peers agreed by a majority of one to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life
So-called 'barely legal' pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing
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