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Face-sitting demo at Parliament takes on sexist new porn laws
Campaigners against new pornography laws provoked Westminster yesterday by performing a mass “face-sitting” in front of the Houses of Parliament.
The raunchy demonstration hoped to raise awareness over the sexist nature of the policies, which will see acts including on-camera female ejaculation banned.
Campaigner Kirsty Kuryakin said: “I’m here to protest against the new porn laws that are coming in which especially misogynistically restrict a lot of sex practices which are legal to do at home.
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