I’m not sure whether grimacing or giggling is the proper response to Illinois State Representative Maura Hirschauer’s boudoir bill HB 1605, whose chief co-sponsor is none other than Illinois’ worst lawmaker Kelly Cassidy.
If passed HB 1605 would make it a crime if in the midst of consensual sex, a “sexually protective device” is removed without consent allowing “contact between a sexual organ” and “the intimate part of another person” or “contact between an intimate part of the person and a sexual organ of another person,” and the couple,
engaged or continued to engage in sexual contact after the defendant knew or became aware that the sexually protective device had been intentionally removed but did not obtain consent from the plaintiff to engage or continue engaging in sexual contact without the use of the sexually protective device.
That’s what the bill says. I kid you not.
The bill defines “sexually protective devices as condoms, dental dams, spermicide, diaphragms, and cervical caps.
Hirschauer and Cassidy believe it’s their job to require that if at any point once consenting sexual partners have begun the beguine, one of them removes barriers between organs and intimate parts, the remover must announce his or her act.
Is that what Illinoisans elected Hirschauer, Cassidy, and their collaborators to do? While Illinois sinks into insolvency, public schools fail to educate students, crime shutters Chicago, and decent people flee the Land of Lincoln for greener pastures, Democrats are proposing speech mandates for consensual sex?
And here I thought leftists wanted lawmakers to keep their big noses out of other people’s bedrooms.
To be clear, I’m fully in favor of prior notification when sexual organs will be in full body contact with the intimate parts of other persons. But maybe, just maybe, our lawmakers have better things to address when they’re on the clock than whether Bob removes his raincoat or Betty her womb veil prior to or during consensual sex.
Maybe Bob and Betty should refrain from sex until they’re married—to each other.
Maybe consenting adults should be responsible for the consequences of their own sexual choices—which would include having sex with untrustworthy partners.
Should sexual partners be legally required to reveal to their partners if they start using contraception when their partner believes they are not using it?
Do Hirschauer and Cassidy believe Illinois should enforce what many believe is an antiquated law prohibiting adultery—a law that hasn’t been enforced in almost thirty years? Surely, adultery is at least as grave and dangerous a threat to a partner’s safety and health as the removal of a sexually protective device.
And how exactly would these crimes be proven in court? How would Betty prove Bob removed his condom intentionally and secretly. How would Bob prove Betty didn’t insert her diaphragm or removed it intentionally and secretly—you know, without an announcement?
Next up, maybe busybodies Hirschauer and Cassidy will propose a bill requiring all sexual encounters to be recorded for proof of announcement regarding protective devices.
Illinois Democrats prove again that they are practiced at the dark arts of wasting public time and money, abusing their power, and intruding where they don’t belong.