You ever discuss law...

[FurryFury]

Evil Geoff!

That is some fucked up stuff there. Don't you know you are supposed to hate the ex???

*shakes head*

I know I hate mine and he's had the good grace to die!

*smiles sweetly*

Fury

 

[exiledmaster]

BDSM is a mix of things (as far as I can tell) in England, Wales (Scotland have different laws for some things).
As I understand it anal sex between gay men is ok, but not husband/wife or hetro couples.
There have been articles of people who make BDSM furniture as a side line being classed as perverted and losing their jobs, but they were not arrested.

In terms of bruising I think different police forces take a differing views.
My ex had been in the Met and he said as long as it was clearly consenting adults it was ok. But the social stigma is a different issue.

Bearing in mind we have the Criminal Record Bureau and a list is now kept by the Home office of people considered 'unsafe' but are not currently under arrest; it makes you wonder just how much 'Big Brother' is watching.

Not quite. The whole consent issue got very muddied by the R vs Brown case (google for Operation Spanner, or The Spanner case) in which our lovely Law Lords, cross dressed for the occasion (wigs and tights? I ask you...) decided that consent wasn't a defence. Now, there haven't been many cases since where the same principle has been used on hetero couples, and I do remember one case where a dom branded his wife / sub, but got off.... I've just had a look at the Spanner Trust website and there is a good brief there from two lawyers at Matrix Chambers going over the Human Rights defences that might be available since R vs Brown. quite possibly the lack of high profile cases recently could be ebcause the prosecuting authorities knwo that they're on dodgy ground...