You might have heard recently that it was going to become a whole lot more difficult to access pornography in the United Kingdom as you were going to have to input all of your personal details – including either a passport or a driving licence – in order to get into the good stuff.
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Obviously this is terrible news for pretty much the entire population of the country and it looked like it was going to be a complete and utter disaster, but it looks as if there might be somewhat of a way around it – and to the surprise of everything it’s actually come from the minds of the government that imposed this law in the first place. For some reason, they’ve come up with the idea of making what they’re terming ‘porn passes’ available at local newsagents which will mean that you won’t have to input your personal details online any more.
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The porn passes work as follows: you head into the newsagents, show them your driving licence or passport and are given a 16 digit number which you can then use to access that sweet sweet pornography online. This will set you back the princely sum of £10 which is probably 100% worth it when you think about it and what’s at stake and how much porn you’re going to see for it.
Unfortunately, this kinda defeats the point of the law coming in in the first place as it was designed to prevent children under the age of 18 from viewing pornography, but now – whilst admittedly it is slightly more difficult – all they will need to do is get some older kid to buy them a porn pass and pay them for it. So the new way to watch porn is basically going to be like how you get alcohol or cigarettes when you’re underage – just give your older brother some money to get it for you and hope actually goes through with it instead of just stealing the money. Fingers crossed.
In any case, it’s a completely useless solution for a problem that didn’t really exist in the first place anyway. Nice one government.
For more of the same, check out the tests that you have to pass before you become a porn star. Harder than you think.
