1. As used in this act,
lawful obscenity means any fully or partially obscene material, obscene performance, or material or performance which is obscene as to minors, as defined by Regional law, where applicable, which is protected by the Atlasian Constitution.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person, including but not limited to entities to publish or broadcast any lawful obscenity over the internet into the South, unless the root domain identifier of the website hosting the lawful obscenity terminates with .xxx.
3. It shall be unlawful for any person to publish or broadcast any lawful obscenity over the internet into the South, unless such person verifies the age of any person seeking to view or access the lawful obscenity prior to such lawful obscenity being viewable by such person. Verification must include the submission by any person seeking to view or access the lawful obscenity of the identification or customer number of a valid government-issued ID that includes such person's age or the identification or customer number of a valid credit card or debit card that includes such person's age.
4. No person verifying the age of a person seeking to view or access lawful obscenity pursuant to this act shall retain any record or information identifying the name of such other person beyond thirty (30) days. Any such record or information may only be shared prior to disposition with law enforcement pursuant to a valid warrant.
5. It shall be unlawful for any person to ship or mail any lawful obscenity in or into the South through any parcel transportation or parcel delivery service unless such lawful obscenity is concealed from public view.
6. Any computer, smart phone, tablet, or similar device that can access the internet and is owned, leased, or funded by the Southern government, including but not limited to work devices, devices provided to members of the milita, devices accessible to prisoners, and devices provided to colleges, schools, libraries, and museums shall be required to contain software that automatically blocks websites with a root domain address terminating with .xxx. This provision shall not apply to devices used by law enforcement pursuant to an investigation.
7. Any computer, smart phone, tablet, or similar device that can access the internet and is owned or leased by a contractor of the Regional government for the purpose of fulfilling a Regional contract shall be required to contain software that automatically blocks websites with a root domain address terminating with .xxx.
8. No Regional, State, or local public funds may be expended for the purpose of or in furtherance of the sale, distribution, conducting, broadcasting, or displaying of lawful obscenity, including but not limited to in any military exchange, prison store, college, school, library, or museum.
9. No public correctional facility, college, school, library, or museum that receives Regional, State, or local public funds shall sell, distribute, conduct, broadcast, or display lawful obscenity unless minors are prohibited from viewing or accessing such lawful obscenity. Verification must include the presentation by any person seeking to view or access the lawful obscenity of a valid government-issued ID that includes such person's age thereon.
10. No obscenity or pornography involving a live male actor shall be produced, manufactured, or filmed in the Southern Region unless such actor wears a condom during any sexual penetration with his penis.
11. No obscenity or pornography involving a live actor shall be produced, manufactured, or filmed in the Southern Region unless each such actor is tested for HIV and other STDs no more than seven (7) days prior to any sexual actvity so produced, manufactured, or filmed.
12. No adult person in the South shall transport a minor in interregional or foreign commerce for the purpose of obtaining an abortion prohibited by Southern law.
13. It shall be unlawful and a felony for any person in the South to produce, distribute, publish, sell, transmit, finance, possess with the intent to distribute, publish, sell, or transmit, or makes any attempt to produce, distribute, publish, sell, transmit, or finance an obscene item depicting or purporting to depict persons engaged in activity:
A. Prohibited by the Coercion Is Not Consent Act;
B. Prohibited by the Eradicating Prison Rape Act;
C. Prohibited by the Preventing Police Penetration Act;
D. Prohibited by the Prostitution Is A Sin Act;
E. Prohibited by the Malevolent Magic Is A Sin Act;
F. Prohibited by the Beware The Creeper Act;
G. Involving a sex toy prohibited by the Common Sense Fun Control Act;
H. Involving an adult lasciviously kissing a child under the age of thirteen (13) on the mouth while knowingly and intentionally penetrating the mouth of such child with his or her tongue;
I. Involving a sexually explicit phone call featuring the voice of an actual child;
J. Taking place in a prohibited bath house room or partition prohibited by the Monkeypox Prevention Act; or
K. Prohibited by this act.
A violation of this provision shall be punishable by imprisonment for no less than one (1) year and no more than three (3) years and a fine of $10,000. Any person convicted of a violation of this act shall be required to register as a sex offender and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.
14. The Protect Our Children From Tattoos Act shall be amended as follows:
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4. It shall be unlawful for any person in the South to pierce the genitals, perenium, or nipples of another person.
15. It shall be unlawful for any person operating a business or website in the Southern Region that expressly provides for or facilitates the matching, pairing, or communication between persons seeking romantic or sexual partners to permit any minor to register with such business or website.
16. No public school receiving Regional, State, or local public funds that incorporates dance into its curriculmn shall include instruction in twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusting, or paired dancing that incorporates sexual or lascivious contact with the genitals or buttocks of any dancer.
17. The Lee-Jackson-Davis Criminal Reform Act shall be amended as follows:
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8. The mere operation of or employment by a massage parlor or bar that permits nudity shall not constitute evidence or probable cause of prostitution. No State or locality in the Southern Region shall raid a massage parlor or bar that permits nudity for prostitution violations except on particularized evidence. Nothing in this provision shall be interpreted as allowing or permitting any massage therapist to sexually stimulate any person in exchange for financial or other valuable consideration.
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18. The Nature Calls Act is hereby repealed as duplicative.
19. No school board member or school principal, teacher, counselor, or other employee shall change the name of a student enrolled in a public school division on any education record relating to such student unless the member or employee receives a change of name order for such student that was issued by a court in accordance with law.
20. The Monkeypox Prevention Act is hereby amended as follows:
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2. This act shall take effect immediately and unless otherwise specified herein, shall expire 455 days after the date of enactment.
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21.The Obscene Sex Toy Prohibition Act shall be amended as follows:
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viii. An obscene candle that is shaped like a phallus;
ix. A fursuit or costume designed to make a human appear as a non-human animal, whether anthropomorphized or not, that based on marketing or design permits the wearer to engage in obscene, lewd, or sexualized acts while wearing such fursuit or costume.
22. No Regional, State, or local public funds shall be expended to fund sex education for minors if such education incorporates the display of or instructional use of a buttplug, dildo, or other sex toy into its curiculumn.
23. It shall be unlawful for any school, daycare, tutoring, or camp teacher, counselor, faculty, or instructor to incorporate the display of or instructional use of a buttplug, dildo, or other sex toy or of any chest binder, genital packer prosthesis including STPs, or genital gaff into any education curiculumn, instruction, or counseling given to minors. A violation shall be punished as a violation of the Common Sense Fun Control Act.
24. Each school in the Southern Region shall adopt a dress code for students, faculty, and guests on school property that at minimum prohibits the wearing of animal costumes or parts of costumes, including ears, tails, gloves, or collars during the school day other than costumes worn as part of Spirit weeks, pep rallies, or theater productions.
25. Any person required by law to register with the animal abuse registry shall, for the duration of his or her time on such registry, be prohibited from purchasing, renting, or possessing: any Animal Crossing video game or similar video games in which the player controls an anthropomorphized animal character; the Last of Us Part II video game; any animal costumes or parts of costumes, including ears, tails, gloves, or collars; or any sex toy.
26. In order to stimulate an appreciation for art and a greater understanding of art, the following films shall be shown in all Southern public schools as part of the curriculm of the following grades along with time for class discussion after:
Grade 4
- The Littlest Rebel
Grade 7
- 1776
- The Alamo
Grade 8
- Red Dawn
- The Longest Day
Grade 9
- The Prince of Egypt
- Ben Hur
Grade 10
- Cromwell
- Dr Zhivago
Grade 11
- The Patriot
- The Alamo
- Gone with the Wind
Grade 12
- The Passion of the Christ
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
27. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no Southern school board, public elementary or secondary school, including any joint or regional school, or employee or agent of such school board or school, including any division superintendent or school principal, shall withhold from any pupil or the pupil's parent any information that is transmitted solely to such school board, school, employee, or agent and that relates to any recognition, award, or postsecondary scholarship eligibility earned by the student, including any such recognition, award, or eligibility earned as the result of the student's achievement on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) examination, or may affect the student's admission to an institution of higher education. All such information shall be transmitted to the pupil and the pupil's parent as soon as practicable after receipt of the information.
28. When determining which text books to adopt in public schools, prior to submitting the list for parental voting, each School shall ensure that such books substantially comply with the guidance provided by Mildred Lewis Rutherford's pamphlet "A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books in Schools, Colleges, and Libraries."
29. Every school and college in the Southern Region shall prohibit students from using artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, when completing graded work and assignments.
30. Every school and college in the Southern Region that offers music courses shall require its band to play the Regional Anthem. Such Anthem shall be performed prior to any school or college sports game, match, or competition occuring within the South. Such Anthem shall also be performed prior to any professional sports game, match, or competition occuring within the South. Intentional failure to do so shall be a felony.
31. When any person has had a judgment entered against him or her, in any region where liability, in whole or in part, is based on a law protecting the murder of unborn children that is prohibited under the laws of this region, such person may recover damages from any party that brought or sought to enforce the action leading to that judgment. Recoverable damages shall include damages created by the action that led to that judgment, and expenses and attorney's fees spent in defending the action that resulted in the judgement's entry.
32. No judge or court justice may issue a subpoena requested by a commissioner appointed according to the laws of any other region or government when that other region or government refuses to comply with valid subpoenas issued pursuant to Southern law.
33. The Common Sense Fun Control Act shall be amended as follows:
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Concealed carry means the carrying of a buttplug inside the anal cavity or the wearing of a chest binder, genital packer prosthesis including STPs, or genital gaff. For purposes of this act anal beads shall not constitute a buttplug.
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Open carry means the wearing or carrying of a dildo or other sex toy in a public place in a wholly or partially visible or observable manner. For purposes of this definition, the wearing of an obscene sex toy or unnaturally large novelty breasts shall constitute open carry. For purposes of this definition carnival games incorporating sex toys, including but not limited to dildo ring toss shall constitute open carry.
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34. The practices of footbinding, chestbinding, female genital mutilation, and male genital mutilation are hereby designated arcane practices.
35. It is the position of the Southern Region that TalkElections Forum create a megathread in USGD for LGBT Policy topics.
36. Unless otherwise specified herein or by law, a violation of this act shall be a misdemeanor punishable by disgorgement of any profits, imprisonment for no more than 4 years, and a fine of $40,000 per violation. Any record or information collected, retained, or disclosed in violation of this act shall be subject to forfeiture and disposition.
37. A person whose privacy was unlawfully violated pursuant to this act may maintain a civil action to recover actual damages, punitive damages of up to $10,000, reasonable legal costs, and any equitable relief necessary to enforce this act.
38. This act shall take effect five (5) days after the date of passage.
