US legislator calls for imposing $10,000 penalties on male masturbation
Mississippi State Senator Bradford Blackmon advocates for making the "discharge" of "genetic material" for pleasure a criminal offense. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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A Mississippi state senator has proposed making it a crime to discharge “genetic material” for pleasure.
A Democrat in Mississippi has put forth a bill that would impose fines of up to $10,000 on men who ejaculate “without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” This legislation is seen as a provocative measure to highlight the state's stringent anti-abortion laws.
Introduced on Monday by State Senator Bradford Blackmon, the ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ aims to prohibit “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” Should the bill pass into law, men engaging in masturbation or non-procreative sexual acts would incur a $1,000 fine for a first offense, $5,000 for a second, and $10,000 for any further violations.
“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are 50 percent of the equation,” Blackmon stated to WLBT News. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation,” he noted.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade had safeguarded the right to abortion from 1973 until it was overturned in 2022. With the elimination of federally protected abortion rights, states have begun to set their own regulations. While liberal states like California and Vermont have enshrined abortion rights in their constitutions, more conservative areas—including Mississippi—have implemented near-total bans.
Though the bill is unlikely to pass in Mississippi’s Republican-controlled legislature, it has garnered significant media attention nationwide, which Blackmon indicated was his intention.
“When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body in his own home, it suddenly has people in an uproar,” he remarked to Newsweek. “I am trying to figure out when it is okay for the government to dictate what you do in the privacy of your own home. Apparently, it is when the laws regulate men.”
This isn’t the first time such legislation has been proposed. In 2017, Texas State Representative Jessica Farrar—also a Democrat—introduced the ‘A Man’s Right to Know Act,’ which featured fines for masturbation and mandated a 24-hour waiting period for men seeking colonoscopies, vasectomies, or Viagra prescriptions.
The title of Farrar’s bill was a nod to ‘A Woman’s Right to Know,’ an anti-abortion pamphlet promoted by pro-life groups. “Let’s look at what Texas has done to women,” Farrar stated to CNN at the time. “What if men had to undergo the same intrusive procedures?”
Anna Muller for TROIB News
A Democrat in Mississippi has put forth a bill that would impose fines of up to $10,000 on men who ejaculate “without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” This legislation is seen as a provocative measure to highlight the state's stringent anti-abortion laws.
Introduced on Monday by State Senator Bradford Blackmon, the ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ aims to prohibit “a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” Should the bill pass into law, men engaging in masturbation or non-procreative sexual acts would incur a $1,000 fine for a first offense, $5,000 for a second, and $10,000 for any further violations.
“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are 50 percent of the equation,” Blackmon stated to WLBT News. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation,” he noted.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade had safeguarded the right to abortion from 1973 until it was overturned in 2022. With the elimination of federally protected abortion rights, states have begun to set their own regulations. While liberal states like California and Vermont have enshrined abortion rights in their constitutions, more conservative areas—including Mississippi—have implemented near-total bans.
Though the bill is unlikely to pass in Mississippi’s Republican-controlled legislature, it has garnered significant media attention nationwide, which Blackmon indicated was his intention.
“When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body in his own home, it suddenly has people in an uproar,” he remarked to Newsweek. “I am trying to figure out when it is okay for the government to dictate what you do in the privacy of your own home. Apparently, it is when the laws regulate men.”
This isn’t the first time such legislation has been proposed. In 2017, Texas State Representative Jessica Farrar—also a Democrat—introduced the ‘A Man’s Right to Know Act,’ which featured fines for masturbation and mandated a 24-hour waiting period for men seeking colonoscopies, vasectomies, or Viagra prescriptions.
The title of Farrar’s bill was a nod to ‘A Woman’s Right to Know,’ an anti-abortion pamphlet promoted by pro-life groups. “Let’s look at what Texas has done to women,” Farrar stated to CNN at the time. “What if men had to undergo the same intrusive procedures?”
Anna Muller for TROIB News
