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Amendment 314 seeks to bring wider parity to how online and offline pornography are regulated. Since 1984, legislation has existed to regulate offline content and media. This legislation specifically prohibits offline content that the British Board of Film Classification would find unsuitable for classification—even for the R18 category —on video, DVD and Blu-ray. The prohibited material, as set out in Section 368E of the Communications Act, includes: material that is in breach of criminal law or created through a criminal offence; non-consensual sexual activity, including rape or sexual violence, particularly when presented as appealing or inviting viewer complicity; real or simulated acts in a sexual context likely to cause serious physical harm, including penetration by foreign objects or dangerous sado- masochistic activities, outside a clearly consensual role play; and material likely to encourage interest in sexually abusive activity.