Smith bans Westwood bondage book

Ben Westwood, the photographer son of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, is not happy with Jacqui Smith (pictured). Why? He
believes that a book he has compiled, provocatively titled Fuck Fashion, is going to fall foul of the Home Secretary's impending Criminal Justice and Immigration Act, part of which outlaws anything which might be considered as "extreme pornography", of which there is plenty in young Ben's book.

The law comes into force in the New Year effectively making illegal any image that portrays a man or woman's life as being in danger in a sexual sense. According to the Independent, Westwood has been informed that, as a result of the ruling, his book, which deals with 'porno-chic' and bondage, will be banned from sale from January. Furthermore, anyone owning a copy of the tome could theoretically receive a three-year jail sentence.

Says Westwood: "Jack Straw and the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith need to be bound up together and gagged. They are trying to dismantle our
basic human rights. We cannot just sit here and take this. We cannot
just lie back and watch this ludicrous Act slip in the back door."

Westwood is not going down without a fight. According to his
agent, Lois Hillgrove, he has enlisted a number of the new great and
the good, including the singer Gwen Stefani and the burlesque dancer
Dita Von Teese, to help him do battle with the Home Office.