Outraged women's groups are now calling on the Prime Minister to close a legal loophole that promotes sexual violence against women and girls. Depictions of rape scenes are legal as long as the actors involved are over the age of 18, the groups warn in a letter in yesterday's Daily Telegraph.
Yet the same law makes possessing images of bestiality or necrophilia illegal – meaning animals and corpses have more rights than women and girls.
The letter, signed by Mumsnet, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, the Trades Union Congress, rape crisis centres and academics at Durham University, calls on the Government to "take urgent action against violent and misogynistic pornography online". Express Online.
