Dan Savage

The legislation also includes prison terms of up to 30 years for anyone found guilty of quote-unquote porn trafficking, which the bill does not define. which is a problem. As the New Republic pointed out a few years back, trafficking is less a clear-cut crime than a call to moral panic. There's no legal definition of trafficking. Trafficking means whatever a cop or a prosecutor wants it to mean.

The legislation also includes prison terms of up to 30 years for anyone found guilty of quote-unquote porn trafficking, which the bill does not define. which is a problem. As the New Republic pointed out a few years back, trafficking is less a clear-cut crime than a call to moral panic. There's no legal definition of trafficking. Trafficking means whatever a cop or a prosecutor wants it to mean.

So in Oklahoma, porn trafficking could mean anything from transporting someone across state lines to appear in porn against their will to flying into Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City with nude pictures of your wife on your phone. It'll be up to the cops in Oklahoma. Lots of stupid bills get introduced by random state senators and state house members all across the country every year.

So in Oklahoma, porn trafficking could mean anything from transporting someone across state lines to appear in porn against their will to flying into Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City with nude pictures of your wife on your phone. It'll be up to the cops in Oklahoma. Lots of stupid bills get introduced by random state senators and state house members all across the country every year.

State legislatures, we are not sending our best. And when a stupid bill like this one gets introduced by a Republican, it generates a lot of news coverage. The idiot who introduced it gets to claim they're being attacked by the lamestream media. They raise a lot of money.

State legislatures, we are not sending our best. And when a stupid bill like this one gets introduced by a Republican, it generates a lot of news coverage. The idiot who introduced it gets to claim they're being attacked by the lamestream media. They raise a lot of money.

And the people targeted by the bill out there reading stories about it, in this case, people who make or consume pornography, and that means pretty much everyone winds up feeling anxious. Now, bills designed to attract media attention aren't just a right-wing thing.

And the people targeted by the bill out there reading stories about it, in this case, people who make or consume pornography, and that means pretty much everyone winds up feeling anxious. Now, bills designed to attract media attention aren't just a right-wing thing.

Bradford Blackman, a Democratic state legislator in Mississippi, introduced a bill last week called the Contraception Begins at Erection Act. This bill would, if passed, make it a crime in Mississippi for a man to, quote, discharge genetic material without intent to fertilize an embryo. Quick technical point, sperm fertilizes eggs, doesn't fertilize embryos, but point taken.

Bradford Blackman, a Democratic state legislator in Mississippi, introduced a bill last week called the Contraception Begins at Erection Act. This bill would, if passed, make it a crime in Mississippi for a man to, quote, discharge genetic material without intent to fertilize an embryo. Quick technical point, sperm fertilizes eggs, doesn't fertilize embryos, but point taken.

The big difference, however, between Dusty Deaver's proposed law criminalizing porn and Bradford Blackman's proposed law criminalizing most of the orgasms men have most of the time is that Deaver's actually wants to send people to prison and Blackman just wants people to think.

The big difference, however, between Dusty Deaver's proposed law criminalizing porn and Bradford Blackman's proposed law criminalizing most of the orgasms men have most of the time is that Deaver's actually wants to send people to prison and Blackman just wants people to think.

As Blackmun said when he introduced this legislation, you have male-dominated legislatures in Mississippi and all over the country that pass laws that dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her body. When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body, it suddenly has people in an uproar. Blackmun wanted an uproar, he got an uproar, and he's done.

As Blackmun said when he introduced this legislation, you have male-dominated legislatures in Mississippi and all over the country that pass laws that dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her body. When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body, it suddenly has people in an uproar. Blackmun wanted an uproar, he got an uproar, and he's done.

Deaver, on the other hand, is not done.

Deaver, on the other hand, is not done.

Given the makeup of Oklahoma State legislature, Republican governor, Republican super majorities in both houses, actually super duper majorities, overwhelming Republican majorities in the Oklahoma State House and Senate, and given the fact that banning pornography was a part of Project 2025, you know, Project 2025, the plan crafted by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump administration that candidate Trump said he knew nothing about, and political fact-checkers accused Dems of being liars when they tried to tie Project 2025 to Trump,

Given the makeup of Oklahoma State legislature, Republican governor, Republican super majorities in both houses, actually super duper majorities, overwhelming Republican majorities in the Oklahoma State House and Senate, and given the fact that banning pornography was a part of Project 2025, you know, Project 2025, the plan crafted by the Heritage Foundation for a second Trump administration that candidate Trump said he knew nothing about, and political fact-checkers accused Dems of being liars when they tried to tie Project 2025 to Trump,

After he disavowed it during the campaign and now Trump, back in office, has spent his first week signing executive orders lifted directly from Project 2025. You know, that Project 2025.

After he disavowed it during the campaign and now Trump, back in office, has spent his first week signing executive orders lifted directly from Project 2025. You know, that Project 2025.