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Men Face $1,000 Fine if They 'Discharge Semen' Under New Bill (www.newsweek.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Fucking Spoogspeare over here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More like a Monty Python.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same difference 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

And now for something completely different…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

The name seems like it has to have also been a dick joke, but I looked it up and apparently not.

Differing, somewhat confusing accounts are given of the origins of the Python name, although the members agree that its only "significance" was that they thought it sounded funny. In the 1998 documentary Live at Aspen during the US Comedy Arts Festival, where the troupe was awarded the AFI Star Award by the American Film Institute, the group implied that "Monty" was selected (Eric Idle's idea) as a gently mocking tribute to Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, a British general of World War II; requiring a "slippery-sounding" surname, they settled on "Python". On other occasions, Idle has claimed that the name "Monty" was that of a popular and rotund fellow who drank in his local pub; people would often walk in and ask the barman, "Has Monty been in yet?", forcing the name to become stuck in his mind. The name Monty Python was later described by the BBC as being "envisaged by the team as the perfect name for a sleazy entertainment agent".[24]