Is it time to bring sadomasochism out of the dark and into legal acceptance?
Updated on 11 July 2008
Should it be legal or illegal to indulge in extreme forms of sadomasochism, that is, inflicting pain and humiliation for sexual pleasure? More4 News investigates.
While other sexual laws have been liberalised over the last few decades, the law on S&M, or bondage, has been made, appropriately perhaps, more strict.
And that's currently forming an important part of the News of the World's defence in the case taken against them by Formula 1 boss Max Mosley, secretly filmed in an S&M session.
Regardless of how that case ends, campaigners say the time is ripe to bring this most secret of vices out of the dungeon and into legal acceptance.
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