Asked whether ministers planned to make strangulation and incest pornography illegal, a No 10 spokesman said: “There are some shocking findings in this report, such as the prevalence of non-fatal strangulation in online pornography and the link to normalisation in real life sexual experiences.
Tech secretary Peter Kyle, who is responsible for online safety, said he would not hesitate to "adapt the law" to prevent people from accessing degrading pornography online.
It said: “The evidence is overwhelming that allowing people to view legal but harmful pornography like choking sex, violent and degrading acts, and even content that could encourage child sexual abuse, is having a damaging impact on children and society.
Speaking to the BBC, Baroness Bertin said online pornography is fuelling some of the “gravest issues in our society, from domestic violence to toxic masculinity to the mental health crisis among young people".
Baroness Bertin’s report contained 32 recommendations for the government to tackle the “high-harm sector” of online pornography, including the ban on videos depicting strangulation.
