"[8] One of the people who publicised National Fetish Day, known as "Pierced Knight", claimed that, I received an email from Carol Delaney, the secretary to Ronnie Campbell, Labour MP for Blyth Valley.
[8]Campbell wrote a letter of complaint to the Sunday Sun, claiming that they had been making him look stupid by "twisting and turning" the meaning of what he had been saying.
In the United Kingdom, the day attracted some media coverage because of the forthcoming ban on extreme pornography, coming into force on 26 January 2009.
[10] Symon Hill wrote in The Guardian that: People with certain fetishes now face the prospect of becoming victims of the government's sustained assault on civil liberties.
In a knee-jerk piece of headline-grabbing, ministers have introduced a law on "extreme pornography" which comes into force this month.
Rather than targeting the exploitative, abusive and bullying elements of the pornography industry, the law is aimed at sadomasochistic images regardless of the context.