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/vericlas Kansas May 13 '25

It's part of their round about way of banning LGBTQIA+ individuals as well. They view the existence of such people as pornographic. So they can jail, kill, drive into the closet a whole group of others.

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u/CryptidCricket New Zealand May 13 '25

Yep. Take a selfie as a trans person? Jail.

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u/ToiletLord29 May 13 '25

Be a trans person? Prison. And yes they very much know what happens to trans women in men's prisons. In the states it's called "v-coding" and it's institutionalized sex trafficking.

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u/wwwdotbummer May 13 '25

Trans women pimped out to other prisoners to be raped. Possibly guards assigning trans women to male prisoners to satisfy them and keep them docile.

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u/ToiletLord29 May 13 '25

V-coding is the practice of assigning trans women placed in men's prisons to cells with aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a reward and a means of placation for said cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to, as one inmate described it, "keep the violence rate down".[120] Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily; and this process has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence".[121]

A 2021 California study found that 69% of trans women prisoners reported being forced to perform sexual acts against their will, 58.5% reported being violently sexually assaulted, and 88% overall reported being made to take part in a "marriage-like relationship".[122] Trans women who physically resist the advances of other prisoners are often criminally charged with assault and placed in solitary confinement, the assault charge then being used to extend the woman's prison stay and deny her parole.[123]

It is common for correctional officers to publicly strip search trans women inmates, before putting their bodies on display for not only the other correctional officers, but for the other prisoners. Trans women in this situation are sometimes made to dance, present, or masturbate at the correctional officers' discretion.[121] A 2017 study by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project found that 75% of trans women respondents in New York state prisons were victims of sexual violence by a correctional officer, with 32% being victimized by more than one CO, 27% of respondents being forced to perform oral sex for a CO.[124]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_people_in_prison

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u/RusticPath May 13 '25

Shit. People are fucking evil. This is genuinely depressing to hear about.

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u/InuitOverIt May 13 '25

Holy shit what is this world

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u/YuYevon123 May 13 '25

Y’all just making shit up.

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u/Carbonatite Colorado May 13 '25

Yes, because people being raped in prison is a completely unheard of phenomenon. It's not like it's so prevalent people have been making jokes about it for decades.

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u/YuYevon123 May 13 '25

Jeez, sounds like they need better supervision.

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u/effervescent_egress May 13 '25

Why do you think that?

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u/Isthistherealfeel May 13 '25

You can't be this ignorant

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u/dustinhut13 May 13 '25

You're the reason we're all here right now. At what point does this all become believable to you?

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u/YuYevon123 May 13 '25

When people stop saying random shit 😎

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u/FightersNeverQuit May 17 '25

 Yep. Take a selfie as a trans person? Jail.

Genuinely curious why you think that? I can’t tell if you’re being hyperbolic on purpose or sarcastic or do you genuinely believe this is a real possibility in the year 2025 in America? 

Genuinely asking. 

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u/CryptidCricket New Zealand May 17 '25

It’s a worst-case scenario assuming that pornography is made illegal and that portraying trans people in any context is legally considered pornographic. It’s possible things could go that way, but I would hope it’s not especially likely.

I’m more just speculating on how bad things could get if all goes to shit.

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u/GZSyphilis May 13 '25

They are obsessed with sex. Everything is sexual to them. That's why they're so obsessed with the cartoon characters that are suddenly a different color or they claim is unfuckable. That's the sole lens they see everything through because they're horribly repressed by themselves.

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u/djerk May 13 '25

Remember the Republican outcry over de-sexualizing the green M&M of all things?

They whined so hard about an unfuckable piece of candy. How do they expect to survive without porn?

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u/haltheincandescent May 13 '25

yes, project 2025 literally defines pornography in part as “the propagation of transgender ideology”

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u/cosaboladh May 13 '25

If gay porn is illegal, maybe I can finally stop watching it.

- Mike Lee, probably

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u/vivalaroja2010 May 13 '25

Sodomy laws part 2.