Tell This to the People You Would Oppress

Regular readers know I've been following UK news about a new British sex law, putatively to protect children, which makes all types of BDSM porn (soft or hard) illegal viewing for our friends across the Atlantic. Last October, BDSMers held a protest rally in London, and one of its most prominent faces was Ben Westwood, the son of international fashion icon Vivienne Westwood.

Now, a few months later, someone at the Daily Mail decided to create a fake news story to take a position in favor of the legislation and sling mud at Mr. Westwood.  Just in case readers miss all the manipulations in the piece to make them feel sorry for the victim of the crime (a poor kid who got involved with an Internet predator), including numerous charming photos of her looking sweet and innocent, the reporter communicated his opinion in his headline:

Protesters say it's their right to watch sadistic porn. Tell that to the mother of the girl murdered by a man addicted to it

And if that didn't rouse enough rabble, he opens with a sensational image that's sure to make everyone keep reading.

Bound and gagged, a desperate woman fights for breath as a noose tightens around her neck.

Her glassy eyes bulge with panic, her tongue lolls and her face is stricken with fear as a camera records every moment of her torture.

And you can view it all in comfort on your living-room computer.

Hell, some of us don't need a computer to see that in our living rooms.

And even if we do, we like it that way. We like having access to BDSM erotica on the Internet, and of course we like looking at images that people not like us may find offensive.  So?  What's so shocking about the fact that some people like looking at what they like instead of what you like?

There are a lot of images we sexual minority types find offensive that prudes like you smear all over the Internet.  Do we launch crusades to make you stop spreading your vanilla filth? I think not. We tolerate your penchants for three-to-five minute intercourse with the lights off. We support your right to have sex exactly the way your pastor or priest told you that you should. We don't mind if you can't bring yourself ever to do more than have man-on-top vaginal intercourse. Hey! You're an adult. You want to have the world's most boring and unimaginative sex life? Go for it.