PORN that depicts incest, choking and other forms of violence against women and girls should be banned, the government’s independent reviewer has said.

In a major review published yesterday, Baroness Bertin outlined a series of measures to tackle abuse and exploitation in the porn industry, as well as the impact of violent content on public attitudes and expectations about sex.

Her recommendations include making harmful content — already illegal in physical formats —unlawful on online platforms and criminalising non-fatal strangulation, commonly referred to as choking in porn.

The End Violence Against Women Coalition director Andrea Simon said: “For too long, the porn industry has been free to profit from sexual violence against women and children, shaping collective behaviours and expectations about sex in a deeply harmful way.

“We welcome the porn review’s ambitious recommendations and the clear proposals on how porn sites can and should be regulated, including the need for strangulation and incest to constitute ‘extreme porn.’

“We know these companies are profiting enormously from sexual violence, and until they are forced to clean up their act, they won’t.

“The government must be bold and ambitious in tackling the drivers of misogyny and abuse and implement these recommendations — with urgency if it is to meet its own mission to halve violence against women and girls.”