"Barely legal" and "Step" porn in UK to be banned

[britporn_mike]

"Barely legal" and "Step" porn in UK to be banned



"Porn branded 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned.

Peers in the House of Lords agreed - by a majority of one - to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life. They also voted to bring intimate pictures and videos of adults pretending to be children in line with similar images of real children.

Calling for the Crime and Policing Bill to be passed in a debate on Monday (March 2), Baroness Bertin, who led a review into pornography regulation published last year, said “around half of all sexual abuse cases against children were perpetrated by step-parents”.


But justice minister Baroness Levitt warned cracking down on pornography depicting sex between step-relatives was complicated, because not all relationships between step-relatives are illegal.

But the peers backed the bans, as well as a Government move to prohibit screenshotting intimate images without the subject’s consent, while courts will have a duty to tell criminals they must delete intimate images they have shared or threatened to share without the subject’s consent.

The Government successfully wrote into the Bill a ban on possessing or publishing pornographic images of sex between relatives and Lady Bertin said she was “mystified why it does not include step-incest”. Her proposal was backed by peers in a 144 to 143 vote.
Porn branded as 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned
Porn branded as 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned | Yui Mok/PA Wire

“Nearly all step-relations between step-parents and step-siblings is illegal," she went on. “This is because Parliament recognised the clear power imbalance in step family relationships within households, and also Parliament acted because step-relations are the most likely relationships in which child sexual abuse takes place.


“In fact, in the UK, around half of all sexual abuse cases against children are perpetrated by step parents, yet the depiction of this type of pornography allows porn companies to profit from content that depicts something which is utterly illegal in the UK.”

The Conservative peer also warned pornography existed “with settings in children’s bedrooms, with actors in children’s clothes, braces, toys, pigtails and other markers of childhood”, with some videos tagged “‘little’, ‘tiny’, ‘age gap'”. She said the content “normalises the sexualisation of children, promotes the idea that children consent, and fuels demand for real child abuse material”.

Lady Levitt said she understood Lady Bertin’s ambitions but warned a broader ban on step-relative pornography could “criminalise sexual relationships that are lawful between adults in real life”. She added the ban would “significantly increase the complexity of the offence”, if police and the courts needed to assess factors such as whether the step-relatives depicted live or have lived together, or whether one had a caring role for the other.

Turning to a ban on content depicting child-like characters, Lady Levitt said she feared the amendment risked “limiting successful law enforcement operations under the existing legislation” as police try to identify and locate children who appear in indecent images.


Expanding the scope of existing legislation “to include adults who can and have consented to make pornography risks diverting resources for the police to try and distinguish children from adults who are pretending to be children”, the minister added.

Conservative peer Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge proposed the duty on courts to make deprivation and deletion orders, if a criminal is convicted of an offence involving sharing an indecent image, which peers backed by 202 votes to 155.

She pointed to an Observer newspaper analysis of 98 “revenge porn” cases concluded in English and Welsh magistrates’ courts across six months in 2024 and 2025 which found three cases resulted in a deprivation order. “It is quite simply appalling,” Lady Owen said. “Survivors of this abuse deserve better.”

Lady Owen also proposed a new “hashing” rule, to effectively set up in law a register of the “digital fingerprints” attached to intimate images shared without consent, which peers backed 192 votes to 155. Voluntary registers already exist, and firms such as social media companies can check the hashes of images they host, matching them with the images shared without consent to stop further distribution.


But Lady Owen said existing hash matching proposals were “not comprehensive enough to fully protect victims and risk victims once again being left to chase their abuse across the internet”. She added: “In some instances, women have achieved successful prosecution, their perpetrators given prison sentences, yet appallingly, these images still remain online.

“To highlight just how serious this really is, those impacted often describe the trauma and helplessness as driving them to the brink of suicide. We cannot rely on the goodwill of internet services to tackle this or for the government to undertake yet another review – we must finally offer comprehensive protections to those whose intimate images have been shared without their consent to allow them to reclaim their lives and stop them living in fear.”

Justice minister Baroness Levitt said changes to hash-matching laws “could have the adverse effect of restricting the flexibility” of the work of watchdog, Ofcom.

On screenshotting, she said: “Intimate images are personal and they are private. Consenting adults are, of course, free to share them and may do so in ways that are permanent or temporary, but a person’s right to share their image temporarily in private must be respected and if there is violation of that right, then it must be addressed.”


The minister said the Government’s proposal would “make it a criminal offence non-consensually to take a screenshot of or copy in any way an intimate image that the victim has shared only temporarily”.

The Bill faces further scrutiny in the Lords, and both Houses must agree the final draft before it can become law.
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[TheButcher]

I'm all for this proposed new legislation, I have always been against the so called "Step" porn whether real or 99% actors on porn sites.

[ispdn]

There are a lot of sick people in the world

[pussylover]

If you cater to people looking for incest, step-sex even though we all know it is scripted actors and fake you are working to make money form a sick crowd, why do it. This also gives the industry bad press and calls for more legislation.

[jag]

Tubes are full of "Step videos"

[koster]

The argument is it is all actors but it is still not kosher

[AlexO]

Ban step sites period

[bestfreeporn]

Tell tubes to delete the "step " categories, but they won't.

[3ric]

A lot of banning going on over there

[alsporn]

"Barely legal" and "Step" porn in UK to be banned



"Porn branded 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned.

Peers in the House of Lords agreed - by a majority of one - to ban videos and images depicting relationships that would not be allowed in real life. They also voted to bring intimate pictures and videos of adults pretending to be children in line with similar images of real children.

Calling for the Crime and Policing Bill to be passed in a debate on Monday (March 2), Baroness Bertin, who led a review into pornography regulation published last year, said “around half of all sexual abuse cases against children were perpetrated by step-parents”.


But justice minister Baroness Levitt warned cracking down on pornography depicting sex between step-relatives was complicated, because not all relationships between step-relatives are illegal.

But the peers backed the bans, as well as a Government move to prohibit screenshotting intimate images without the subject’s consent, while courts will have a duty to tell criminals they must delete intimate images they have shared or threatened to share without the subject’s consent.

The Government successfully wrote into the Bill a ban on possessing or publishing pornographic images of sex between relatives and Lady Bertin said she was “mystified why it does not include step-incest”. Her proposal was backed by peers in a 144 to 143 vote.
Porn branded as 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned
Porn branded as 'barely legal' and explicit content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned | Yui Mok/PA Wire

“Nearly all step-relations between step-parents and step-siblings is illegal," she went on. “This is because Parliament recognised the clear power imbalance in step family relationships within households, and also Parliament acted because step-relations are the most likely relationships in which child sexual abuse takes place.


“In fact, in the UK, around half of all sexual abuse cases against children are perpetrated by step parents, yet the depiction of this type of pornography allows porn companies to profit from content that depicts something which is utterly illegal in the UK.”

The Conservative peer also warned pornography existed “with settings in children’s bedrooms, with actors in children’s clothes, braces, toys, pigtails and other markers of childhood”, with some videos tagged “‘little’, ‘tiny’, ‘age gap'”. She said the content “normalises the sexualisation of children, promotes the idea that children consent, and fuels demand for real child abuse material”.

Lady Levitt said she understood Lady Bertin’s ambitions but warned a broader ban on step-relative pornography could “criminalise sexual relationships that are lawful between adults in real life”. She added the ban would “significantly increase the complexity of the offence”, if police and the courts needed to assess factors such as whether the step-relatives depicted live or have lived together, or whether one had a caring role for the other.

Turning to a ban on content depicting child-like characters, Lady Levitt said she feared the amendment risked “limiting successful law enforcement operations under the existing legislation” as police try to identify and locate children who appear in indecent images.


Expanding the scope of existing legislation “to include adults who can and have consented to make pornography risks diverting resources for the police to try and distinguish children from adults who are pretending to be children”, the minister added.

Conservative peer Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge proposed the duty on courts to make deprivation and deletion orders, if a criminal is convicted of an offence involving sharing an indecent image, which peers backed by 202 votes to 155.

She pointed to an Observer newspaper analysis of 98 “revenge porn” cases concluded in English and Welsh magistrates’ courts across six months in 2024 and 2025 which found three cases resulted in a deprivation order. “It is quite simply appalling,” Lady Owen said. “Survivors of this abuse deserve better.”

Lady Owen also proposed a new “hashing” rule, to effectively set up in law a register of the “digital fingerprints” attached to intimate images shared without consent, which peers backed 192 votes to 155. Voluntary registers already exist, and firms such as social media companies can check the hashes of images they host, matching them with the images shared without consent to stop further distribution.


But Lady Owen said existing hash matching proposals were “not comprehensive enough to fully protect victims and risk victims once again being left to chase their abuse across the internet”. She added: “In some instances, women have achieved successful prosecution, their perpetrators given prison sentences, yet appallingly, these images still remain online.

“To highlight just how serious this really is, those impacted often describe the trauma and helplessness as driving them to the brink of suicide. We cannot rely on the goodwill of internet services to tackle this or for the government to undertake yet another review – we must finally offer comprehensive protections to those whose intimate images have been shared without their consent to allow them to reclaim their lives and stop them living in fear.”

Justice minister Baroness Levitt said changes to hash-matching laws “could have the adverse effect of restricting the flexibility” of the work of watchdog, Ofcom.

On screenshotting, she said: “Intimate images are personal and they are private. Consenting adults are, of course, free to share them and may do so in ways that are permanent or temporary, but a person’s right to share their image temporarily in private must be respected and if there is violation of that right, then it must be addressed.”


The minister said the Government’s proposal would “make it a criminal offence non-consensually to take a screenshot of or copy in any way an intimate image that the victim has shared only temporarily”.

The Bill faces further scrutiny in the Lords, and both Houses must agree the final draft before it can become law.
Related topics:GovernmentHouse of LordsRelationshipsCourtsParliament""






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100% for this proposal. "The minister said the Government’s proposal would “make it a criminal offence non-consensually to take a screenshot of or copy in any way an intimate image that the victim has shared only temporarily”."

[Webby]

Real or fake this is the type of content that gives adult a bad name.

[pornmafia]

Barely legal are 2 words I will never promote

[pokerking]

Whoa for once I agree with some new law being proposed to limit porn in the UK

[born2bewild]

Then you wonder why they are turning so hard on adult sites, with terms "barely legal" and "Step porn" you're asking for anti-porn legislation.

[Terry]

Then you wonder why they are turning so hard on adult sites, with terms "barely legal" and "Step porn" you're asking for anti-porn legislation.

Yep that is not helping things