Depressing

I recently posted about my views on the way the country is going in trying to make sex into a crime. Sadly I don't see any real basis for optimism. I had hoped at one stage that - in a way like it's become increasingly acceptable to be openly gay without every member of the same sex feeling threatened, we might move to a situation where it would be possible to be openly spanko without everyone feeling the need to stick a book down the back of their pants whenever you were around.

If anything we seem to be moving the other way. We're already on the brink of some parts of our "scene" being criminalised. While it don't see any likelihood of immediate danger of being criminalised by viewing material in the Xerotics, Girls Boarding School, Northern Spanking, Firm Hand type of areas, we're perhaps starting to get to a stage where possessing material from Lupus, Spanking Server/Pain4fem, Hard Caning/Caned 4 Cash or Mood might not be viewed so lightly.

It was interesting that when I was posting my previous item about the victimisation of Victoria Thorne I actually clicked the "publish" button, looked out the window, and saw a police patrol car cruising slowly past my house. There was a split second of paranoia. Perhaps - if things continue to decline - that's something we're all going to be facing for real. If at some point I found myself in the papers because of police interest in my predilections, I don't know how I'd cope with the effect on my family - it would probably cost me my job as well.

If I was told tomorrow that looking at some of sites I've just named was now illegal,would I never look at them again? I do have the advantage of a strong imagination - I can get excited about pictures that might seem perfectly innocent to someone else because I can weave a story around what is happening. Takes this one for example...

These three are obviously in for a stern ticking off from the headmistress and maybe more. The one on the right is probably the ringleader and is about to get told to take her hands out of her pockets and stand straight. The one on the left is the one least used to being in trouble - probably just easily lead. She'll be the weak link who'll confess and drop all three of them in it.

And what about this one...A stunning girl who is clearly in big trouble and waiting to go into the head's office who's being kept waiting deliberately so she can think about her behaviour and what the consequences are likely to be.

Yes - I love those sorts of pictures - but I want to live in a country where depiction of consensual acts isn't illegal and I don't get made to feel more and more like a criminal.