In a move which underscores Iceland's efforts to become the first democratic country in the West to block online pornography, the country is reportedly considering a new law that will ban access to violent Internet porn.

The proposed legislation to block violent online pornography in Iceland was put forth by the country's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jonasson; and the country's parliament is currently assessing the proposal.

The new law essentially calls for blocking access to violent online porn, instead of common-or-garden X-rated videos; with the Minister's political advisor Halla Gunnarsdottir reassuring that a narrow definition of violent filth would clearly set it apart from more palatable sexually explicit content.

With Iceland already having a law in place against printing and distributing porn, Gunnarsdottir told the Daily Mail that new law proposed for blocking violent online pornography - through measures like barring connections to selected IP addresses and filtering web traffic by ISPs, among others - is "not anti-sex, it's anti-violence."

In their justification of the proposed ban on violent online porn, the ministers have drawn attention to a 2010 study by the Icelandic government which revealed that the signs of trauma seen in children exposed to footage of extreme hardcore action were the same as those seen in youngsters who had actually been physically abused.