Michigan Republicans are now pushing a total ban on pornography
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2025 5:25 pm
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/mic ... al-ban-on/
Anti-LGBTQ+ Michigan State Rep. Josh Schriver (R) proposed a total porn ban that would prohibit the distribution of “real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory” depictions of sexual acts. It would make it a crime to send a nude selfie or any sexual image to anyone for any reason. Five other state Republican lawmakers co-sponsored the legislation.
Schriver’s bill, H.B. 4938 (the “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act”) outlaws any depictions of penetrative or oral sexual intercourse, self-pleasuring, climax, sado-masochism, and even autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a phenomenon — often triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli (like whispering or slow movements) — where a pleasant tingling sensation moves from the scalp down the neck and spine.
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In February, Schriver introduced a non-binding resolution telling the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage rights. He said the court’s landmark 2015 decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide “has widened a portal where gays, queers, transsexuals, polygamists, minor attracted persons, and other perverts advance attacks on our children,” echoing decades-old attacks demonizing LGBTQ+ people as pedophiles.