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ITEM: Oregon is outlawing bukkake.
Well, to hear BoingBoing tell it, anyway.
The Oregon state House has introduced a law that would make it a second degree sex abuse crime to “intentionally propel dangerous substance at another person for purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire”.
“Dangerous substance” = “blood, urine, semen or feces”.
Eh?
If yr wondering (and surely you are), the law is in response to an incident in March 2008 when a man was arrested for masturbating in a Target and blowing his load on a female shopper. In front of her 3-year-old daughter.
As you do.
The guy was booked on a simple harassment misdemeanor, which annoyed legislators who thought he should be charged with sexual assault (a felony), and vowed to write up a law making it so.
Over a year later (such was their outrage), they’ve finally got around to it. I’m assuming the delay is the result of trying to think of a way to word it so that when they read it out loud in the House it didn’t make people cringe or giggle like six-year-olds.
Clearly the reporter for The Oregonian found it all a bit squicky, judging from the headline: “House passes bill too gross to talk about”.
She also gets a few facts wrong (like when the Target incident took place, and saying that the guy “threw” his semen at the woman, which is an interesting way of describing it, but hardly accurate). She also inserts a random fearmongering “fact” that gangs do this kind of thing all the time as an initiation ritual – which sounds more like an urban legend than actual fact.
She also leaves out one important point: the law applies only to non-consensual wad-flinging. Which means the bukkake mavens over on BoingBoing are probably worried over nothing.
Anyway, that’s the kind of comedy you get when grown-ups are too afraid to talk about squicky orgasms in public.
As for the actual law itself, I don’t have a problem with making ejaculating on innocent bystanders a felony (though I wouldn’t equate it to rape, as the bill does – rape is far more serious and warrants a far tougher penalty than it currently does). But the term “dangerous substance” is overdoing it. Why couldn’t they just say “bodily fluids” and be done with it? I could be arrested for possessing a "dangerous substance" right now.
If I lived Oregon, I mean.
Also, I’m thinking of changing the tag line of this blog to “Flung out of sexual desire”. It’s kinda catchy.
Built to spill,
This is dF
Well, to hear BoingBoing tell it, anyway.
The Oregon state House has introduced a law that would make it a second degree sex abuse crime to “intentionally propel dangerous substance at another person for purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire”.
“Dangerous substance” = “blood, urine, semen or feces”.
Eh?
If yr wondering (and surely you are), the law is in response to an incident in March 2008 when a man was arrested for masturbating in a Target and blowing his load on a female shopper. In front of her 3-year-old daughter.
As you do.
The guy was booked on a simple harassment misdemeanor, which annoyed legislators who thought he should be charged with sexual assault (a felony), and vowed to write up a law making it so.
Over a year later (such was their outrage), they’ve finally got around to it. I’m assuming the delay is the result of trying to think of a way to word it so that when they read it out loud in the House it didn’t make people cringe or giggle like six-year-olds.
Clearly the reporter for The Oregonian found it all a bit squicky, judging from the headline: “House passes bill too gross to talk about”.
She also gets a few facts wrong (like when the Target incident took place, and saying that the guy “threw” his semen at the woman, which is an interesting way of describing it, but hardly accurate). She also inserts a random fearmongering “fact” that gangs do this kind of thing all the time as an initiation ritual – which sounds more like an urban legend than actual fact.
She also leaves out one important point: the law applies only to non-consensual wad-flinging. Which means the bukkake mavens over on BoingBoing are probably worried over nothing.
Anyway, that’s the kind of comedy you get when grown-ups are too afraid to talk about squicky orgasms in public.
As for the actual law itself, I don’t have a problem with making ejaculating on innocent bystanders a felony (though I wouldn’t equate it to rape, as the bill does – rape is far more serious and warrants a far tougher penalty than it currently does). But the term “dangerous substance” is overdoing it. Why couldn’t they just say “bodily fluids” and be done with it? I could be arrested for possessing a "dangerous substance" right now.
If I lived Oregon, I mean.
Also, I’m thinking of changing the tag line of this blog to “Flung out of sexual desire”. It’s kinda catchy.
Built to spill,
This is dF
