A Mississippi senator shocked residents last week as he proposed a satirical new bill that would bizarrely see men fined for masturbating. It has left everyone wondering how it could possibly be enforced.
It was last Monday (January 20), that Mississippi state Senator Bradford Blackmon made the unusual move to propose that it should be made unlawful within the state for men to masturbate in any other sexual relations that involved 'discharging genetic material' without the express intention of 'fertilizing a human egg'.
Meanwhile, the bill, which has been called the 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act' would still need to make it's way past Republican Governor, Tate Reeves, for it to become set in law. It has left many wondering how such rules could ever be enforced by those in power
If the habit is made unlawful, it is proposed that those in contravention of the bill would be handed fines that would start at $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 on the second and $10,000 for any offences after that. However, men who use contraception and those who intended to donate to sperm banks would be exempt under the new proposals.
Senator Blackmon said the satirical move was in response to Mississippi state law banning women from having abortions, with the only exemptions being to save the mother's life or if the pregnancy resulted from rape
It was last Monday (January 20), that Mississippi state Senator Bradford Blackmon made the unusual move to propose that it should be made unlawful within the state for men to masturbate in any other sexual relations that involved 'discharging genetic material' without the express intention of 'fertilizing a human egg'.
Meanwhile, the bill, which has been called the 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act' would still need to make it's way past Republican Governor, Tate Reeves, for it to become set in law. It has left many wondering how such rules could ever be enforced by those in power
If the habit is made unlawful, it is proposed that those in contravention of the bill would be handed fines that would start at $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 on the second and $10,000 for any offences after that. However, men who use contraception and those who intended to donate to sperm banks would be exempt under the new proposals.
Senator Blackmon said the satirical move was in response to Mississippi state law banning women from having abortions, with the only exemptions being to save the mother's life or if the pregnancy resulted from rape
