So it's only violence against women that is "pornography" then?!
The attitude in this opinion piece is plain sexist bigotry.
If the fear is of encouraging violence, then given that 'random' violence against men is one or two orders of magnitude higher
than it is against women, since when was it OK to encourage violence against men -- when, it seems, the trigger is set to go off much more easily, as it were -- but not to encourage violence against women?
Why are journalists always so ignorant of their own prejudices, when they are supposed to be arbiters of bias, and in such a good position to disseminate whatever prejudices they have?

steve moxon, sheffield,

This seems to conflate two issues. If 'SS Experiment Camp' is violent or anti-Jewish, ban it for that. It is clearly not pornographic; the BBFC would not have passed it for open sale.

Pornography covers adult sexual pleasure on a consensual basis. It seems that relationships involving BDSM (Bondage Domination Sadism and Masochism) rely on consent, however abhorrent whatever these people get up to is regarded by others, using of a modicum of agreed, 'acted out, force', even in pornographic material associated with it.

Even if some find this film sexually stimulating, if wet ban everything that did that, then there would be no more cream, custard, high heels or, apparantly, balloons etc.

This type of film has been on the Continent for 30 years or so. In that time there has been no directly related exodus. Is British moral character more suspect?

As existing laws already cover bad people who do 'real' bad things, why is who raising this issue right now?

Avana Beach, London, UK

There's a HUGE amount of self-censorship going on and the media mostly conspires in this.

You know that nobody wants to offer a critique of the Prophet or basic tenets of Islam.

Christianity of course is fair game. The BBC suppresses all manner of polemic. For example I've never seen any expression of an anti-evolutionary philosophy, or an answer to Richard Dawkins (you could start with Alistair Mcgrath) or indeeds any affirmative depiction of a Christian or his faith in a soap or drama.


Oh and by the way - the spirit of Mary Whitehouse is coming back. There is all manner of censoriousness around and nanny-statism. What about all this child-protection stuff? Don't you see how immigrant communities are continually pressing (rightly in my view) for the cleaning up morally of their environment, whether it's what they see or where they live.

Colin Donington, Newcastle,