We're back from holidays and our next project, still for UNIT 5, 6 it's about "Politics and Fashion".The idea is too pick a theme that is related to politics and that matter, such as animal testing, how fashion exploits people in poor countries to produce fast and cheap fashion, sexuality, among others. We had a nice discussion and it was quite interesting to exchange points of view in such contemporary and controversial themes.
My theme for this project is "UK banned porn". Last year, the UK government banned a couple of activities from porn, they are not allowed to be produced, sold or seem in the UK. Activities such as: face-sitting, fisting, canning, humiliation and female ejaculation are considered "life-threating" and should not be seem by people, specially by children, who according to them are the main reason why this stupid law exists.
The problem is the law itself only ban things are produced INSIDE THE UK, but you still have access to porn websites from outside. So what's the point anyway? Children will find ways of cheating the system or they could just go to websites that are not from the UK. Another issue is the sexist vibe of this law, why is it only FEMALE ejaculation considered life-threating and not MALE as well? It's a natural body fluid, it's not dangerous. And, why can't a lady sit on a guy's face for risk of asphyxiation but women chocking on penises are still aloud? It's also a way of asphyxiating.
The matter goes deeper because who is this law protecting? Verbal and physical abuse is also forbidden even if consensual. So you can't even decide for yourselves. The parents have the task to raise and select what their kids are going to watch not the government, it's intrusive and hurts their own economy. According to PornHub website, 200% of viewers of spanking are British, so does that make sense? And what about movies and music videos that are verbally and sexually abusive? 50 shades of grey is coming out in two months, the film's got everything that is prohibited, is it going to be censured? Or banned? I don't think so.
So these are some initial thoughts about the theme. Still a lot to go on.