# 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:** 2
**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, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/21 "2014-12-14T19:41:51Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > That was my question - in the UK, what’s the difference? > > Regards, > Shodan I always assumed face sitting originated from 69. A favorite position for limber and young adults. The middle aged can indulge too. 😉 At least for short spurts. Charley horses can spoil the fun. Oral sex can be accomplished without face sitting. I find it more tiring and painful to my back and neck. Face sitting makes it so much easier. ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/22 "2014-12-14T19:58:11Z")
The Daily Telegraph has a longer article. There’s links to related articles in a side column. > **[Sex and snorkels: the face-sitting protest was a porno pantomime](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/11290324/Sex-and-snorkels-the-face-sitting-protest-was-a-porno-pantomime.html)** > > Hundreds of people have protested against new porn laws with a 'mass face-sitting' outside Westminster. Radhika Sanghani went to witnesses the carnage ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/23 "2014-12-14T20:06:31Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Poor Lady Sonia. ☹ > Whatever will she do on Friday night now? Ah yes, Lady Sonia. You know, there’s something to be said for British accents when used in proper circumstances. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/24 "2014-12-14T20:35:47Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Its ironic England gave us D. H. Lawrence and Henry Fielding. Erotic literature has a long history. Except that English erotica is always just a little bit… bent. > [@](#): > > Anyway, I thought the world had long gotten past worrying about what is depicted in adult films. Well, the Japanese will show every kind of weird nastiness there is, but have to blur the genitalia. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/25 "2014-12-14T20:37:42Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > 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 😉 [They have banned caning.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11269271/Spanking-and-caning-just-two-of-the-sexual-acts-now-banned-in-British-porn-films.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/26 "2014-12-14T20:44:58Z")
So [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJnd9rSAQ8) could no longer be made? ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/27 "2014-12-14T20:49:27Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > [They have banned caning.](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11269271/Spanking-and-caning-just-two-of-the-sexual-acts-now-banned-in-British-porn-films.html) From this link, they also banned breath play, deep throat, age play, rape play. What is unclear to me is the following : > [@](#): > > British pornography will be censored by new rules which ban video-on demand films from showing acts like spanking and caning. > > New rules mean that paid-for porn watched online will have to comply with the current British Board of Film Censors guidelines, which cover DVDs bought in sex shops. > > Video shot abroad can still be viewed, but there will be severe restrictions on content created in the UK. So, porn not following these rules won’t be illegal to possess and watch, but it will be illegal to sell it in the UK (online or in sex shops)? That’s correct? ---
**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, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/28 "2014-12-14T21:11:50Z")
I’m not sure which disturbs me more. Censorship for puritanical reasons or Censorship for political correctness. No mild sex play like spanking, ropes, or other harmless bedroom games enjoyed by consenting adults. Please save us from the well meaning people in the world that think they know whats best for us. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/29 "2014-12-14T21:23:20Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This in the nation that once imposed draconian laws on male homosexuality… Unlike the enlightened USA. From one of the links above followed: _**[1903 – In New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_LGBT_history)** on 21 February 1903, New York police conducted the first United States recorded raid on a gay bathhouse, the Ariston Hotel Baths. 26 men were arrested and 12 brought to trial on sodomy charges; 7 men received sentences ranging from 4 to 20 years in prison._ 20 years seems quite heavy. > [@mhendo](#): > > 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?) That’s what all the surveillance cameras are for. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/30 "2014-12-14T21:27:15Z")
But Americans are supposed to be the religious prudes while Europeans are sophisticated perverts. You can’t just dismantle stereotypes like that! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/31 "2014-12-14T21:34:48Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Please save us from the well meaning people in the world that think they know whats best for us. For some reason, when it comes to sex, a large segment (I would guess, in fact, the majority) of the population somehow feels entitled to tell us what we should or should not do in the privacy of our homes, and think that it’s open to public debate. I find this attitude outrageously preposterous, but it’s not exactly a novelty (and regarding kinks, radical feminists are significantly worst and more active than religious types, who are too busy fighting rear-guard battles against premarital sex and such things) Thinking about dangerous uses of ropes, I expect they’ll also ban videos about alpinism and sailing. A significant number of people, encouraged by the positive view of these activities depicted in this nefarious material, die every year drowned or falling to their death. This has to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/32 "2014-12-14T21:41:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > pu\*sy 😕 Pursy? Pudsy? Pufsy? Pugsy? ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/33 "2014-12-14T21:46:58Z")
😉 wasn’t sure if Pugsy was a banned word here. Better safe than sorry. Using an \* is an old habit. So many boards auto censor naughty words. They’re just scrubbed from your posts like magic. ---
**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, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/34 "2014-12-14T21:59:46Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > This in the nation that once imposed draconian laws on male homosexuality… > > Unlike the enlightened USA. (Sorry, quote function fubar again - manual quoting) You didn’t read that for context. Supposedly Jolly Old issued anti-homosexuality laws that only applied to men, because Victoria or one of the PMs didn’t believe there was any such thing as female homosexuality. It’s probably apocryphal - but my comment was not that England was somehow unusual in putting anti-homosexual laws with outrageous penalties on the books. Most countries have, at one time or another. ---
**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, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/35 "2014-12-14T22:02:59Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJnd9rSAQ8) could no longer be made? _cough_ post #3 _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/36 "2014-12-14T22:05:34Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Okay, so maybe it’s another apocryphum from the Victoria annals. 🙂 “Victorian Anal” is also banned. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/37 "2014-12-14T22:06:05Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 😉 wasn’t sure if Pugsy was a banned word here. Better safe than sorry. > > Using an \* is an old habit. So many boards auto censor naughty words. They’re just scrubbed from your posts like magic. It’s hard for newbie posters to judge the culture of a place. I suppose that after 15,000 posts you are just starting get an inkling. :dubious: ---
**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, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/38 "2014-12-14T22:14:47Z")
Is there any explanation as to why this particular act (or position in which this act can be achieved) is deemed objectionable and others not so? Unless, as I mention, it refers to something other than the opportunity to say “I love you too, dear” in a somewhat muffled voice. Don’t they worry the porn actor’s ears might get cold? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/39 "2014-12-14T22:26:17Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > From this link, they also banned breath play, deep throat, age play, rape play. > What is unclear to me is the following : > > So, porn not following these rules won’t be illegal to possess and watch, but it will be illegal to sell it in the UK (online or in sex shops)? That’s correct? I think it’s just illegal to _produce_ it in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-workers-have-staged-a-face-sitting-protest/707197/40 "2014-12-14T22:27:40Z")
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