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Dont worry, im not considering a change in career! just wondering, is it legal to work as a non-sex dominatrix in the UK? tried google but nothing really came up, maybe someone has experience of this??
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Almost all dommes -unless part time dommes within a relationship- are non-sex.
I'll see if i can find some more specifcs.
Is BDSM against the law?
This is a difficult question to answer. It has to be yes, and no. A police
operation named "Operation Spanner" targetted a group of gay and bisexual
BDSMers in the early nineties, because they mistook a home movie of their
activities to be a snuff film. When the case came to court, the men pleaded
not guilty to charges of causing actual bodily harm on the grounds that they
had all consented to the activities. The prosecution could not get any of the
men to say it had been non-consensual, and had even tried threatening the
"subs" with aiding and abetting actual bodily harm, as they had asked for
these things to be done to them. Nevertheless, the judge decided that consent
was not a valid defense, and with no other availiable defense, the men were
found guilty. A campaign group (Countdown On Spanner) quickly appeared and
started to make a lot of noise about this, and the case went to appeal. The
appeal failed, and it went to the Law Lords. The Law Lords upheld the original
judgement, but did recommend that the law be changed, and noted that the
definition of Actual Bodily Harm by then had changed so much that the
original prosecution would not have gone through.
The case only refers to activities, such as whipping or caning, that leave
marks. Any mark which is "of more than a trifling or transient nature" is
currenlty against the law. The only way to test this, however, is to have
another court case. A case cannot go ahead without evidence (the marks
themselves are not enough, they have to prove how they were gained) and so
unless you have videotapes, and someone gives one to the police, you are
probably safe... The case makes no mention to the legal status of consensual
bondage, humiliation, roleplay, fetishism, watersports, or any other BDSM
activities except those which mark.