Lawyer backs kinky Olympixxx in call for change in sex laws

Obscenity lawyer Myles Jackman and feminist pornographer Pandora Blake have joined forces with campaigners in a protest against the risks posed to personal privacy and sexual freedom by the Digital Economy Bill.

Backed by the Open Rights Group and NO2ID, the Backlash Kink Olympixxx is set to feature satirical games including 'Fisting Volleyball', a 'Spanking Relay Race', and 'Squirting Waterfight' to parody the sexual acts that are legal to perform in real life, but illegal to represent, possess, or publish depictions of under UK sex laws.

The Olympixxx will be held outside parliament on 17 October 2016 and will also feature speeches from civil liberties organisations including Privacy International, Index on Censorship, and the English Collective of Prostitutes.

Jackman, the former Hodge Jones & Allen lawyer who in 2015 launched a crowdfunding campaign for monthly donations to fund his pro bono work with Backlash, explained the serious message behind these surreal games.

'Whilst the Kink Olympixxx was conceived as a playful protest, the Digital Economy Bill poses a serious risk of users' personal sexual preferences being leaked; will adversely affect sexual minorities' ability to freely express their sexuality; and most frighteningly, imposes state censorship and surveillance of consensual adult sexual content in the UK.

'Chinese state censors and surveillance agents will envy this Hadrian's firewall.'

Blake, who won the right to relaunch her fetish website following a landmark ruling in June, added: 'The Digital Economy Bill will introduce compulsory age verification for all adult content without any measures to safeguard the privacy of web users.

'Consensual adult sex should not be criminalised, yet this Bill will prohibit the publication of depictions of sexual activities that are legal to perform.

'We are calling for a Joint Committee on Adult Liberty to update our retrograde sex laws.'