Ukraine Is Weighing Legalizing Porn to Pay for Drones

According to washingtonpost.com:

Ukraine is hunting for unconventional ways to shore up its war budget. Lawmakers are debating a bill that would decriminalize producing and distributing pornography between consenting adults. The goal: pull a massive adult-content industry out of the shadows and steer the money toward the war effort.

According to the tax service, nearly 8,000 Ukrainian OnlyFans creators pulled in more than $131 million in 2023. The work is technically illegal right now — it carries up to 7 years in prison — though police have often looked the other way or shaken down creators for bribes. Legalizing it would let the government collect taxes on all that income.

The bill's sponsors, including lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak, figure the budget would rake in about $25 million a year. That, he says, would be enough to buy roughly 30,000 attack drones.

The bill already sailed through its first reading by a landslide vote of 231–8. A second reading is expected this session. The push began after a petition by a well-known OnlyFans model, Svetlana Dvornikova, whom tax officials and police forced to pay taxes and then raided. Her petition drew more than 25,000 signatures.

Supporters argue the money is already being made — it just disappears into the black market or overseas. Legalization, they say, would send it straight to the army, curb corruption, and "give women legal standing."

Well, the war is clearly forcing Kiev to scrounge for money wherever it can find it. With a $27 billion budget hole to fill, even unusual revenue streams are getting serious consideration.

Porn is an obvious choice for Ukraine, a country "already associated with the exploitation of women", as WaPo diplomatically puts it.

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