A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act”.
As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”
There are also fines involved, the third strike resulting in the loss of $10,000 from the perpetrator.
In a statement to WLBT News, Blackmon wrote, “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 fifty percent of the equation.
This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”
I am not sure if he is being genuine or this is a parody meant to highlight the extreme measures that anti-abortion extremists will go to to control the bodies of women.
Either way, it reminded me of this scene from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (1983).
Certainly says something about the state of our political institution when we can’t tell anymore if obvious parody is really parody.
Hey, teenage boys: Are you having wet dreams at night, with nocturnal emissions?
Senator Bradford cares about this very much, and he wants to keep track of every time.
Wait! Where is this going? 🤪
Good thing ejaculations are 100% volitional, and never occur say… during sleep. Bullet dodged!
Well, it’ right there in the bible. Genesis 38:8-10
8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” 9 But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. 10 What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Blackmon
I’m guessing this is a parody bill.