# Sex workers have staged a face-sitting protest. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197 "2014-12-14T10:57:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/1 "2014-12-14T10:57:15Z")
:dubious: Britain wants to ban eating pu\*sy in their porn films? Why? What in the world is wrong with that? It’s no more explicit than the old in and out screwing. I didn’t realize the Brits are such ridiculous and out of date prudes. S&M and bondage are much more of a Brit thing. But I guess 69 they find immoral or something. The other stuff water sports and girls squirting are fetish films that I personally dislike. But I have no objections to them being made and sold. Whatever floats your boat. > **[Sex workers stage face-sitting protest](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/12/13/sex-workers-stage-face-sitting-protest/)** > > Sex workers have staged a face-sitting protest outside the British parliament. They were campaigning against proposed changes to UK porn regulations, reports the Telegraph. Part of the new restrict… > [@](#): > > Sex workers have staged a face-sitting protest outside the British parliament. > > They were campaigning against proposed changes to UK porn regulations, reports the Telegraph. > > Part of the new restrictions on certain sex acts in paid-for British porn movies will include a ban on “face-sitting”, female ejaculation, physical or verbal abuse and “water sports.” > > The British Board of Film Censors say the ban is on acts which are “not acceptable.” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/2 "2014-12-14T11:07:14Z")
Smeargate is one of many Brit scandals I’ve heard about over the years. The [The Profumo affair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair) in the 60’s really rocked the government. Getting whipped and handcuffed is ok, but 69 (face sitting) is offensive? huh. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-scandal-vice-madam-to-name-389053](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-scandal-vice-madam-to-name-389053) > [@](#): > > The vice madam at the centre of the Smeargate scandal is set to name and shame FOUR high-flying Tories in a tell-all book. > > Natalie Rowe will reveal how the men enjoyed degrading sex sessions which saw them whipped and handcuffed while high on cocaine. > > Two of her former clients are in Tory leader David Cameron’s top team today, while the other two are former Tory ministers – one was in the Cabinet. Her £1million memoirs – already snapped up by a major publisher – threaten to send shockwaves through David Cameron’s party ahead of next year’s general election. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/3 "2014-12-14T11:19:44Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KkJnd9rSAQ8/hqdefault.jpg "Monty Python - Sit on My Face w/subtitles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJnd9rSAQ8) Not everyone in England agrees. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/4 "2014-12-14T12:03:26Z")
oral sex isn’t a big deal. Once you get past the smell you got it licked. 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/5 "2014-12-14T13:52:01Z")
As is unfortunately common in matters of this sort, I am naïve to the point of cluelessness. Does “face-sitting” mean something different in the UK? I am guessing it does, because of the association with “water sports”, which I do understand (I think). In my American mind, face-sitting and water sports have nothing necessarily in common with each other. Is it otherwise in Britain? Please be gentle with your explanations - I frighten easily. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/6 "2014-12-14T14:43:00Z")
It’s going back a while now, but I do seem to recall that one can pussy-lick without anyone sitting on anyone’s face, though this is the wrong forum for me to suggest that anyone should shove his anti-British pig-ignorance anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/7 "2014-12-14T16:20:23Z")
My understanding is the British government is claiming this is a safety issue rather than an obscenity issue. They’re claiming that face-sitting is more dangerous than other sexual positions because of the possibility of the person underneath not being able to breath properly. They’re also banning depictions of fisting and bondage for the same argument of their relative danger. That said, the same law bans squirting videos and unless they’re arguing there’s a risk of drowning, I don’t see how that represents a danger to anyone involved. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/8 "2014-12-14T16:39:02Z")
Ah… so it looks like it’s a way to ban “Max Hardcore”-type productions, as in you may make explicit porn but it must be polite, gentle explicit porn that does not offend and where nobody can get hurt. How veddy British. Next the ladies will have to wear bicycle helmets whenever they do it cowgirl position, and full elbow, knee and shin guards for fellatio scenes. If they were to ban caning, OTOH, that would be the fall of the realm. Maybe that is the problem, a new generation of leaders that never got the full Public School treatment 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/9 "2014-12-14T16:44:45Z")
So what, no peaches in Britain? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/10 "2014-12-14T16:46:00Z")
What is a Brit supposed to do with that stiff upper lip? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/11 "2014-12-14T16:49:12Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > :dubious: Britain wants to ban eating pu\*sy in their porn films? Why? What is pu\*sy? And you are incorrect: there is no ban on oral sex. The ban is explicitly on face-sitting, which is not the same thing. **Shodan** , you’re right that face-sitting and water sports don’t necessarily have anything to do with one another. They’re just both part of a larger range of activities, including fisting, that have been banned from pornography produced in Britain. The last part is important, and highlights how silly the ban is. First, the law does not ban regular, non-porn people from practicing face-sitting or fisting or water sports in their houses (how would you police that anyway?), so it’s pretty useless as a safety measure. And the law also does not ban face-sitting or fisting or water sports in pornography that Brits can view, as long as that pornography is produced outside of the UK. I think the ban is all very silly. As long as proper safety precautions are taken, consenting adults should be free to get their freak on and upload it to the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/12 "2014-12-14T17:00:40Z")
This in the nation that once imposed draconian laws on male homosexuality but had no equivalents for women because Vicky didn’t believe any such thing existed. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/13 "2014-12-14T17:19:40Z")
I recall from the 70s or 80s one of the British nations (Australia?) banning a lot of US mainstream porn like “Playboy” because of some issue over breast size ------ so I’m not entirely surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/14 "2014-12-14T17:20:13Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This in the nation that once imposed draconian laws on male homosexuality but had no equivalents for women because Vicky didn’t believe any such thing existed. [Or not](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_in_LGBT_rights), as the [case](http://www.mikedash.com/extras/forteana/ask-bizarre/victoria)may be. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/15 "2014-12-14T17:36:48Z")
Okay, so maybe it’s another apocryphum from the Victoria annals. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/16 "2014-12-14T17:57:43Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > And you are incorrect: there is no ban on oral sex. The ban is explicitly on face-sitting, which is not the same thing. That was my question - in the UK, what’s the difference? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/17 "2014-12-14T18:12:55Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > That was my question - in the UK, what’s the difference? Fat-assed sex workers causing a rash of asphyxiations? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/18 "2014-12-14T18:21:37Z")
As long as they don’t do it in the middle of the street and frighten the horses, anything is fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/19 "2014-12-14T18:23:34Z")
Poor Lady Sonia. ☹ Whatever will she do on Friday night now? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/20 "2014-12-14T19:23:51Z")
Lady Chatterley is going to be disappointed too. First the war and now this. 😃 Its ironic England gave us D. H. Lawrence and Henry Fielding. Erotic literature has a long history. Anyway, I thought the world had long gotten past worrying about what is depicted in adult films. I always thought the erotic comedys are the best. Ann Margaret starred in an adaptation of Joseph Andrews. I read parts of Tom Jones (its a huge novel to wade through). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197.md?page=2)