I have a question for anyone involved with online sex work, with the UK's new rules on choke play, does deep throating count as choke play? Should me and my partner avoid it? Please boost to get as many opinions as possible
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The legislation is still going through Parliament.
The most recent text of the amendment that I can find (because it is not easy to find the text of a bill with all amendments) is this:
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It is an offence for a person to be in possession of an image if—
(a) the image is pornographic, within the meaning of section 63,
(b) the image portrays, in an explicit and realistic way, a person strangling or suffocating another person, and
(c) a reasonable person looking at the image would think that the persons were real
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Tthe question would be whether the imagery in question depicted "suffocation", which may come down to portrayal / context / the nature of the scene, rather than a specific act in and of itself.
(page 121, https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/63372/documents/7287)
There are a number of proposed defences, but none are particularly helpful in the context of sex work.
However, for one's own personal images, it is proposed to be a defence that a person in possession of the image:
> directly participated in the act portrayed and the act did not involve the infliction of any non-consensual harm on any person.