For the second year in a row, Oklahoma Republican Sen. Dusty Deevers has introduced a bill that would criminalize pornography in the state. If passed, S.B. 593 would create “criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison for production, distribution, or possession” of consensual adult pornographic material and “10-to-30-year criminal penalties for organized pornography trafficking.“
The bill died last session after being assigned to, and ignored by, the Judiciary Committee, but its language was broad enough to criminalize the illustrator of erotic drawings or “even someone who simply sent someone who is not their spouse a sexually charged photo,” as Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown reported.