ethel
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Post by ethel on Mar 31, 2023 13:40:19 GMT
It saddens me, it really does. Nothing seems to have improved or changed over the past fifty years, despite growing awareness of the insidious effects bullying and porn have on people. In some ways I prefer the 70's. Even the porn seemed more innocent then, and probably was, less available anyway. People don't change I suppose, and once a boys club, always a boys club. Humanity isn't making any huge strides forward any time soon is it, in fact it seems to be going backwards.
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keitha
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2024, hopefully the year I get out of P2P
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Post by keitha on Mar 31, 2023 14:14:57 GMT
it seems some judges ignore the guidelines when it suits them. MY BIL was arrested for possession with intent to supply, he was allowed bail after several months on remand but on a very strict curfew and a requirement to report to the nearest police station every day. He Moved to London and took all his paperwork into the local station and explained the situation. they actually laughed and told him that that level wouldn't even have got a caution in London, let alone several months of remand. When it did go to court he got 4 years.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Mar 31, 2023 14:18:27 GMT
it seems some judges ignore the guidelines when it suits them. MY BIL was arrested for possession with intent to supply, he was allowed bail after several months on remand but on a very strict curfew and a requirement to report to the nearest police station every day. He Moved to London and took all his paperwork into the local station and explained the situation. they actually laughed and told him that that level wouldn't even have got a caution in London, let alone several months of remand. When it did go to court he got 4 years. That's not the judge ignoring the guidelines. That's the police not progressing the offence to charging. More commonly, it's poor media reporting ignoring the differences in nominally similar cases that lead to different points on the charging structure.
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james100
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Post by james100 on Mar 31, 2023 16:21:40 GMT
It saddens me, it really does. Nothing seems to have improved or changed over the past fifty years, despite growing awareness of the insidious effects bullying and porn have on people. In some ways I prefer the 70's. Even the porn seemed more innocent then, and probably was, less available anyway. People don't change I suppose, and once a boys club, always a boys club. Humanity isn't making any huge strides forward any time soon is it, in fact it seems to be going backwards. True. Porn usage goes hand in hand with erectile dysfunction...just a little sex joke But seriously, I agree. Never got my head around the normalization of things like Only Fans and sex work being "so empowering" for women either. Apparently slightly less "empowering" if one's wife/daughter does it, though
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