

BDSM should be LEGAL with CONSENT.


BDSM should be LEGAL with CONSENT.
The Issue
I feel that BDSM should be LEGAL with CONSENT.
Consent within BDSM is when a participant gives their permission for certain acts or types of relationships. It bears much in common with the concept of informed consent. It is an issue that attracts much attention within BDSM, as well from outside observers.
Legal consent is a separate and largely unrelated matter. The importance of consent is simultaneously a personal, ethical, and social issue. Acts undertaken with a lack of consent are considered abusive and shunned within the BDSM subculture.
I feel that the UK government should make BDSM LEGAL with CONSENT.
I feel that if someone who is naturally Dominant or Submissive and they feel that they want to practice in the BDSM Lifestyle then this should be recognised with both of their consents.
Why should a BDSM scene get shut down if adults in the scene feel enthusiasm to participate in the BDSM scene with any consensual participants with legal age, therefore they should be allowed to take part in this activity.
British law does not recognize the possibility of consenting to actual bodily harm. Such acts are illegal, even between consenting adults, and these laws are enforced (R v Brown being the leading case).[3] This leads to the situation that, while Great Britain and especially London are world centers of the closely related fetish scene, there are only very private events for the BDSM scene which are in no way comparable to the German "Play party" scene.
Following Operation Spanner the European Court of Human Rights ruled in January 1999 in Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v. United Kingdom that no violation of Article 8 occurred because the amount of physical or psychological harm that the law allows between any two people, even consenting adults, is to be determined by the jurisdiction the individuals live in, as it is the State's responsibility to balance the concerns of public health and well-being with the amount of control a State should be allowed to exercise over its citizens. In the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2007, the British Government cited the Spanner case as justification for criminalizing images of consensual acts, as part of its proposed criminalization of possession of "extreme pornography".[4]
And this is why i feel that the law needs to have some changes.

The Issue
I feel that BDSM should be LEGAL with CONSENT.
Consent within BDSM is when a participant gives their permission for certain acts or types of relationships. It bears much in common with the concept of informed consent. It is an issue that attracts much attention within BDSM, as well from outside observers.
Legal consent is a separate and largely unrelated matter. The importance of consent is simultaneously a personal, ethical, and social issue. Acts undertaken with a lack of consent are considered abusive and shunned within the BDSM subculture.
I feel that the UK government should make BDSM LEGAL with CONSENT.
I feel that if someone who is naturally Dominant or Submissive and they feel that they want to practice in the BDSM Lifestyle then this should be recognised with both of their consents.
Why should a BDSM scene get shut down if adults in the scene feel enthusiasm to participate in the BDSM scene with any consensual participants with legal age, therefore they should be allowed to take part in this activity.
British law does not recognize the possibility of consenting to actual bodily harm. Such acts are illegal, even between consenting adults, and these laws are enforced (R v Brown being the leading case).[3] This leads to the situation that, while Great Britain and especially London are world centers of the closely related fetish scene, there are only very private events for the BDSM scene which are in no way comparable to the German "Play party" scene.
Following Operation Spanner the European Court of Human Rights ruled in January 1999 in Laskey, Jaggard and Brown v. United Kingdom that no violation of Article 8 occurred because the amount of physical or psychological harm that the law allows between any two people, even consenting adults, is to be determined by the jurisdiction the individuals live in, as it is the State's responsibility to balance the concerns of public health and well-being with the amount of control a State should be allowed to exercise over its citizens. In the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill 2007, the British Government cited the Spanner case as justification for criminalizing images of consensual acts, as part of its proposed criminalization of possession of "extreme pornography".[4]
And this is why i feel that the law needs to have some changes.

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Petition created on 3 December 2014