Ukraine is considering dismantling its ban on pornography as lawmakers seek to bring a large online adult industry into the tax system and redirect millions of dollars toward the country’s wartime needs.

Yaroslav Zhelezniak, an opposition lawmaker who chairs Parliament’s finance committee, estimates legalization could generate as much as $25 million a year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

He says that would be enough to finance about 30,000 drones.

The sum is modest against Ukraine’s stated annual defense requirement of $120 billion.

However, supporters argue the industry is already generating taxable income while operating under laws that expose creators to criminal prosecution.

A bill co-authored by Zhelezniak passed its first parliamentary vote in July and is awaiting a second reading.

Do you want me to start paying for porn?

Because that’s how you get me to start paying for porn.

Why did they ban porn in the first place?

Because Ukraine was once a very conservative country.

Being part of a Soviet Union would do that, unfortunately.

Porn ban started in 2001.

Probably anti-russian/pro-west backlash, tbh. Lot of pro-jesus laws passed around the world as a way to reject the USSR.

still is

Same reason the US is having problems with conservatives wanting to ban drag shows and have everyone to give all their information to third party companies for age verification. Their imaginary sky daddy told them to be an angry asshole to everyone having fun or minding their own business.

Tax dat ass?

Okay… so long as we stop there and not let the bit continue. 😬

The local ‘OF stardom’ won’t register, or will just move abroad. The practice of their craft is not bound to any single location.

Ukraine is not a serious country, nor are it’s leaders serious people.

Ukraine is not a serious country, nor are it’s leaders serious people.

Classic .ml moment

Damn imagine getting clowned on by an unserious country

Yeah, Putin thought that too…

I guess someone’s Wildberries delivery was cancelled 🤭