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A bill proposed to the Ohio statehouse will make male ejaculation without intent to have a baby, a fineable offense of up to $10,000.

The bill has been proposed by State Representatives Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, who wrote it to point out what they see as the absurdity of rules that control women's bodies but do not control men's. It has not been formally introduced to the House Floor yet.

Per Somani and Rader, men would face a $1,000 first offense, $5,000 second offense, and $10,000 subsequent offense fine to "discharge semen or genetic material without intent to fertilize an embryo."

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

I can't wait for it to pass

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 159 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We could pay down the national debt in about 4 hours.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of men will need ~~bank~~ spank loans.

New business opportunity!

New fintech startup, Wankr, provides loans at 2400% to pay your wank-fines.

....Now to get $300 million in Series-A funding.

[–] HowAbt2morrow 9 points 1 week ago

A few nation’s debts

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 108 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They should quit trolling and start resisting. Gesture politics is a displacement activity.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean tbf the GOP has a supermajority in the Ohio House so there's probably not much she can do other than trolling.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not true. She could take a page from AOC's book and inform the people of their rights and how to resist the fascist administration AND troll the fascists for their ignorant reactions.

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohio voters recently passed a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, so writing that bill here is certainly mostly a signal to national politics.

Also, I had a vasectomy, so would I still be able to wank away under the proposed bill? lol

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also, I had a vasectomy, so would I still be able to wank away under the proposed bill? lol

Required, actually. With mandatory minimums for both frequency and duration.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

mandatory minimums

duration

...fuck.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Fair enough.

[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

How about proposing actual progressive legislation that would help her constituents, and calling out the Republicans who oppose it?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Agreed.

I get what they're doing, but they can look at the stats and see that Trump has broadened his coalition, in part, because of the fashionable hate directed toward men by people who consider themselves progressive, and stupid shit like this just adds gasoline to the fire.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Seriously, I'm so tired oh these "Gotcha! Look at how hypocritical they are!" gestures. They're empty and a complete waste of time.

They. Do. Not. Care.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Which is great until you remember that the religious right is okay with that idea

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It'd legitimately be hilarious if they introduced it on the House floor and the general response was, "Oh, yeah, this is perfect!" and it somehow passed.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hilarious, but awful. This has cursed monkey paw wish written all over it.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

I don't live in the USA, so I would be very amused to see these things pass.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's already happened. Not this exact bill, but a "inception begins at ejaculation" bill. Forget which idiot Congressman proposed it.

I believe they actually did it before these people started to attempt to use it to troll people.

[–] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Yah, the at times almost universal male genital mutilation in the US goes back to religious nutjobs like Kellog & co to stop boys from masturbating. It's also what motivated Kellog, in his quest for the blandest food, to invent cornflakes, because, apparently, spicy foods make you naughty. Good Glob, I wish I was kidding.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 week ago (5 children)

These performative bills are so dumb; you can't shame the shameless. Republicans are open hypocrites. You think they care about this?

Push laws for actual protections against people being hurt

Absolutely will not happen in Ohio, the only way the statehouse could do anything beneficial for it's citizens would be to have a massive gas leak

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 7 points 1 week ago

They are too busy hurting people.

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[–] Biggles@lemmy.myserv.one 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll never financially recover from this.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 13 points 1 week ago
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'm already several hundred thousand in debt.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every sperm is sacred,
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

[–] HowAbt2morrow 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fucking Spoogspeare over here

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Their bill has some exceptions, as it says men in Ohio will not be fined if they are using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.

The bill is specifically aimed at men having straight sex without protection who do not then create a baby. (emphasis added)

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

all the listed exceptions will be declared illegal in separate legislation.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I haven't read the article yet but I'm really not understanding what they're even trying to dissuade here... Like what tort are they even punishing in their twisted little minds?

EDIT okay right away the article adds some much needed context:

The bill has been proposed by State Representatives Anita Somani and Tristan Rader, who wrote it to point out what they see as the absurdity of rules that control women's bodies but do not control men's.

It's like a protest bill.

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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

the fake christians of America prove why freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

[–] ansis@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

the term "moneyshot" gets a whole new meaning

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago

Would be nice if we had an actual opposition party to, you know, put in bills to oppose the massive abuse of power that's been going on for a while now. Instead we get frumpy faces, folded arms, an occasional angry letter, moral victories, and of course the "that'll show 'em" bills.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That just makes having a wank more thrilling, getting close knowing you're about to reach a 100 grand fine that day.

America, edging its way to a theocracy.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

"Your Honor, I was trying to get the Kleenex pregnant."

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

This week Im going to petition the Michigan government to build a yuge wall between us and Ohio. I don't want any more chronic masterbaters roaming our streets, they belong in Cleveland.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

if they pass this law, people would go out jerking off everywhere in protest

[–] HandsomePotatoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I mean, what about people with vasectomy? Do we just get the death sentence?

[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

There would be a national day of gooning.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Gun owning Americans, not being allowed to jerk off.

That's probably fine...

Right?...

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I discharged in the direction of Ohio earlier...bill me later

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[–] loaf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Well, there goes my retirement.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a lot of overdraft fees. Just gonna make me masturbate even harder though.

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their bill has some exceptions, as it says men in Ohio will not be fined if they are using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community. The bill is specifically aimed at men having straight sex without protection who do not then create a baby.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Honestly that's fairly reasonable

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