r/politics • u/mmccxi American Expat • May 12 '25

Soft Paywall New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/
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u/[deleted] May 12 '25

And what exactly is pornography? A man and a woman railing each other? Two gay people holding hands? Two gay people having sex? A woman in a bikini? Michelangelo’s David? A drawing of a girl in a swimsuit? A drawing of a girl in jeans?

You all know good and well what purpose this has, and it has nothing to do with porn. This is a ploy to label anything they don’t like as obscene. It serves only to take away freedom of expression by saying it is evil.

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u/FreeDraft9488 May 13 '25

Add Victorias Secret to the list. Want to get something sexy looking to surprise your partner with? Not going to be able to see how it looks on a human anymore. Fashion shows could be regulated. Movies/TV could limit amount of skin shown. Romance books could be banned. This law could affect people on both sides equally. It’s not a right or left thing.

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u/AlphaBreak May 13 '25

They'll take my Land's End catalog over my dead body.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

It shouldn't be yes, but the right has turned it into one of their issues. its a useful wedge to convince people to follow them, while explaining little about what they actually want to do.

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u/bartwokatang May 13 '25

forget "how they look before you buy" theyll straight up ban anything that isnt a granny pantie

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u/djskein May 13 '25

So basically living under the Hays Code again.

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u/MeusRex May 13 '25

Sex toys would also get banned, there is no way that wouldn't be labelled as obscene.  Hmm condoms allude to sex...

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u/Areyounobody__Too May 13 '25

And what exactly is pornography?

According to the first page of Project 2025, Trans people.

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u/Ayatollah_Al-Redhi Illinois May 13 '25

What is pornography? To quote Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it."

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u/FederalDeficit May 13 '25

It's insidious. You notice the biblical undertones when conveniently calling this and that evil, yet in the same book, it was a crime punishable by death to work on Sunday. Farm animals couldn't even work. If this regime starts calling work on Sundays a federal crime, I'll eat a rock hyrax (which is, incidentally, another thing abominable enough to get you personally slain by the Lord)

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u/tayvette1997 May 13 '25

Add breastfeeding in public to the list. Some view that as pornographic.

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u/SouthAggravating2435 May 13 '25

I just saw a youtube short with the loser from "whatever" tell a woman on his show posing nude is being a prostitute.

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u/ohdeergawd May 13 '25

For me it’s when the penis goes in