Bukkake outlawed in Oregon?

The newspaper headlines around this one are funny: “House passes bill too gross to talk about,” cringes the Oregonian. Bottom line seems to be that they’ve outlawed bukkake. Here’s a pretty straightforward wikipedia entry about the act, popularized first in Japanese pornography, then made famous through American titles.

Today’s Oregon ruling was sparked by a really awful non-consensual crime that involved a single perp and a single intended victim. Not funny, and I’m all for the maximum possible penalties there. But the language of the bill appears to cover the consensual but equally icky Porn Valley phenom, which typically involves lots of multiple participants, some of whom are paid as performers.

The proposed new law nobody wants to talk about would make it a second degree sex abuse crime to propel “a dangerous substance at another person.” That substance being semen or other bodily fluid flung out of sexual desire.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ss … ss_to.html

The bill only applies to substances flung at people “who do not consent thereto,” so I think porn will be okay.

I did some searching on this, and apparently someone did “bukkake” on another person to humiliate them (which is kinda the original purpose of it, if you believe the Japanese historic origins). Long story short: Oregon didn’t have an offense for that kind of sex crime… because it never came up before. Thus they’ve just made one.

However owning bukkake porno or doing it with a willing partner is still legal, as per the Constitution’s 3rd and 4th Amendments.

As GaiusMax pointed out, “consent” is the key word. So it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights. It doesn’t call bukkake obscene, which is usually how legal dictators try to deny people fetish pornography. The law is only for protecting those who don’t want it done to them.

Which is the way it should be. This really SHOULD have been sexual assault all along, so now the fact the perp probably can’t be charged with anything beyond misdemeanor assault is undesirable. And they didn’t completely overreact at the same time, and try to ban anything other than this specific thing? For a sexcrime?

I’m kind of impressed.