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Do you think this image is pornographic?
Should my Substack be labeled pornography because I posted this image? Are such photos on my iPhone suspected porn? Are the people in this public square consuming pornography? Should they all be arrested as sex offenders? Am I a pornographer? Have I made YOU a consumer of porn by posting this photo?
Many readers probably heard about the Florida school that banned images of Michelangelo’s David. Parents thought it was porn. Actions like theirs provide insight into where far-right Christo-fascist Republicans will take our country if they win in November.
But we don’t need to speculate about what they will do to pornographers. Here’s what Project 2025 says about pornography. Very early. On PAGE 5:
“Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”
Project 2025 Page 5
Most people on the left define pornography differently than the authors of Project 2025 do. To left-leaning folks, porn is erotic films, fetish sites, racy pictures. It’s a tool to enhance one’s sex life. Yes, it can be addictive, but it’s something consenting adults enjoy in private. Unless it exploits children or traffics people against their will, what’s the harm, right?
For over 50 years, liberals have refused to do the work necessary to understand far-right language. They hear Christian Nationalists and the Moms for Liberty crowd screeching about porn, and they think a Republican administration will come after their PornHub. While that would suck for those who like PornHub, most Americans shrug and say, “So what? I’m not really into porn, so this won’t impact my life.”
WRONG.
Because I grew up in a Christian Nationalist church and school, I speak fluent far-right Evangelicalese. Here’s a sample of items the authors of Project 2025 would consider pornography:
Artworks featuring nudity, partial nudity, suggestions of sex, allusions to homosexuality, or other erotic depictions of the female form
Books featuring physical contact of any kind other than between one man and one woman who are married
Homosexuality
Transgenderism
Films featuring nudity, partial nudity, suggestions of sex, allusions to homosexuality, or other erotic depictions of the female form
Music with explicit lyrics, foul language, sexual situations, erotic sounds, or anything else that makes someone think about sex
Images of scantily clad women or women wearing clothing that outlines their bodies
Live performances that glorify homosexuality, transgenderism, sexual contact outside of marriage between one man and one woman, nudity, partial nudity, single motherhood, the questioning of faith (which they call “The Truth”), and taking their One True God’s name in vain
Any publication, artwork, book, film, image, song, performance or website that features content that might make a man like House Speaker Mike Johnson think about sex
Maybe readers will better grasp what this list means if I provide specific examples. In the next post, how Project 2025 defines art as pornography, and what it could mean for YOU. With pictures!
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Love that you speak fluent far-right Evangelicalese....and they say Americans aren't bilingual.... LOL
The 2025 MANIFESTO is really what it is. Did it come from The Heritage Fondation?
This is down right scarey..... this is Iran and North Korea manifesto stuff. Yes the left leaning did not take this seriously over the past 50 years. They never thought local, state and government politics would get this uptight and righteous. Now the US is at a precipice. America needs to wake up!