The UK is waging war on porn. Not all porn, but apparently anything that isn’t solely focussed on male pleasure.

If you aren’t linked into the adult film world, you may not be aware of some pretty drastic new laws that the United Kingdom has put in place about what can and cannot be showing in porn being made, produced, or available to UK porn watchers.

What it boils down to is if you are into anything other than hetero-normative, vanilla, mainstream porn, you may have a really hard time finding videos that fit your needs. Even if the acts depicted are 100% explicitly consensual between adults.

Kitty Stryker, Courtney Trouble, and TROUBLEfilms are trying to bring awareness to these new restrictions through a docu-porn, Ban This Sick Filth! and are fighting an uphill battle. Not only do the acts depicted make the video illegal and “obscene” in the UK, the content also made distribution on DVD in the US impossible.

Ban This Sick Filth! isn’t easily labelled. It’s not just porn, although there are some very hot and kinkerific scenes and sections. It’s not just a documentary, although there are plenty of interviews and monologues describing how these new laws are affecting producers and performers. It’s not just a call to social action, although there are appeals to viewers to contact and support organizations like Backlash-UK, who are fighting against repression of sexual freedoms. It’s all these things rolled together which makes it a unique beast.

The video itself is broken up into several sections, consisting of interviews, dialogues, and monologues, broken up by some really great examples of the scenes that are now illegal under the new legislation. And the commentary does a great job at pointing out inconsistencies within the law, which has an obvious bias against female pleasure. Acts popular with vagina owners, such as fisting, face sitting, and female ejaculation, are all banned however the biological cock-based equivalents, such as male ejaculation, and deep throating which obstructs breathing, are not.

BDSM scenes are also targeted, as British Law (and Canadian, for that matter) says that someone cannot consent to be harmed, no matter how much they enjoy, desire, and agree to it. Pandora Blake from Dreams of Spanking, in the second section of the film, comments about how by strengthening the anti-BDSM porn language may also reinforce anti-BDSM lifestyle laws as well. Soon the acts that the UK has deemed to be too obscene for video might also be too obscene for your bedroom or local kink club.

If I can be a bit critical, for a second, and it will only take a second…the movie is LONG. Like three hours long. I had to watch it in chunks over several days. Which for porn, is kinda normal. But this isn’t just porn. This is important shit. It’s worth the time investment, but it is an investment, none the less.

For me, the best parts of the video were the behind the scenes stuff and the outtakes. Normal people, doing their jobs, enjoying what they are doing…just coincidentally making porn at the same time. I love real reality not that Hollywood schlock.

A portion of the proceeds from Ban This Sick Filth! are going to Backlash UK to help them fight the good fight and support porn industry workers caught up by the new rules. Head over to www.realqueerporn.com/ban-this-sick-filth for a copy of your own.