The committee’s only two female members voted in support of the effort, which compares unsolicited sexual images to a kind of digital indecent exposure.
Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, D-Virginia Beach, speaking Thursday before the Virginia Senate’s Judiciary Committee. (Twitter image via Courthouse News).
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Virginia’s Senate nixed a bill aiming to make unsolicited pictures of genitals or sex acts illegal after citing First Amendment concerns in a hearing Thursday.
“Sending an obscene picture should require consent from the recipient,” Delegate Kelly Convirs-Fowler argued regarding her bill, which sailed through the state’s House with unanimous consent.