🇺🇦 The same day Ukraine's parliament voted for the 20th time to extend martial law, they also found time to pass a bill decriminalizing adult pornography in its first reading.

231 in favor, 8 against, 3 abstaining. The same bill toughens penalties for child sexual abuse material, and lawmakers say the real point is regulating an industry that's operated in a legal gray zone for years while cutting the police corruption tied to enforcing the old law.

Maybe the policy logic checks out on paper. The optics are still rough. The Rada also voted out its own Prime Minister that same session, soldiers are dying on the front line every day, and somewhere in between all of that lawmakers carved out floor time to legalize OnlyFans style content.

Zelensky didn't personally push this bill. Deputies across party lines have been trying to pass some version of it since before the war even started, and that context is fair to mention.

It still doesn't change how it looks from the outside, a country three and a half years into a full scale war spending a parliamentary session debating porn law on the same day it extends martial law again.

A little controversial, if you ask me.

Sources: Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) / Writer: Sol

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