MASS FACE-SITTING DEMONSTRATION PLANNED IN LONDON TO PROTEST NEW PORN LAWS

A mass “face-sitting” demonstration is being planned in London to protest a new set of porn laws in the UK.

Hundreds are expected to gather on Friday outside Parliament, where demonstrators will simulate sex acts with each other and sing along to Monty Python’s “Sit On My Face.”

The #PornProtest is a response to a new set of restrictions placed on pornography filmed and produced inside the UK. (The laws do not affect what programming UK citizens choose to watch.)

As of Dec. 1, strangulation, whipping and face-sitting were banned on the grounds that they were “potentially life-threatening.”

Charlotte Rose, the protest organizer and Britain’s 2013 Sex Worker of the Year, told Buzzfeed that the restrictions are outrageous. “How is it perfectly okay for a man to choke a woman with his penis in her mouth, yet we can’t enjoy cunnilingus through face-sitting?”

A host of other sex acts, including urination (or “water sports”) and spanking, were also banned.

The law appears to censor specifically the BDSM genre, and has been criticized for being sexist. “Personal liberty is what we are fighting for on Friday,” Rose told London 24.

The protest will include serious speeches from various organizations, with the face-sitting taking place at the end. “It’s just a bit of ridiculous fun to show the ridiculousness of these laws,” Rose told the Telegraph.

In order to calm concerns that face-sitting is “life-threatening,” Rose joked on the protest’s Facebook page that there will be “facial color charts for health and safety to ensure no one is being suffocated.”