Pornography, a category of content that the Supreme Court cannot define , could soon be outright illegal in Oklahoma. State Senator Dusty Deevers (that is his real name, not his porn name) recently proposed a slew of morality policing laws including one that would send any person who produces, distributes, or possesses adult content to prison for up to 10 years. The bill, SB 593 , would increase existing penalties for any sort of engagement with pornographic material.
It would increase the penalty for possession and distribution of child pornography, creating a new minimum of 10 years behind bars, with a maximum of a 50-year jail sentence for repeat offenders. But along with that, it would establish a straight-up porn ban, penalizing people even for material produced and distributed legally. The penalty for “production, distribution, or possession” would start at up to 10 years, with a 10-to-30-year sentence for “organized pornography trafficking.
” In a press release, Deevers described pornography as “both degenerate material and a highly addictive drug” that “ruins marriages, ruins lives, destroys innocence, warps young people’s perception of the opposite sex, turns women into objects, turns men into objects, degrades human dignity, and corrodes the moral fabric of society.” So, seems like he’s not all that flexible on his feelings here. The porn ban is just one bill in a slate that Deevers says is “aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.
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