According to Project 2025, I’m a Pornographer and Should Go to Jail

I sometimes write about boys kissing boys

Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen
Published in
4 min readAug 14, 2024

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Two men kissing passionately.
Photo by Sushil Nash on Unsplash

Boys kissing = pornography?

The authors of Project 2025 consider the following to be pornography, and the author (me) deserving of prison:

Lex bent forward and brushed his lips across Clark’s, just a hint of a kiss, then pulled back, watching him carefully.

A shiver went through Clark and he stared at Lex with wide eyes. Then he reached up, curled a hand around Lex’s neck, and pulled him down for another kiss.

I’m Glad It’s You, a fanfiction story (fanfic) written by me

I’ve been writing fanfiction for close to twenty years, and I started posting it online on Fanfiction.net in 2005, then on Archive of Our Own (AO3) in 2012. I wrote and posted my first fanfic with a same-sex romantic pairing, “I’m Glad It’s You,” in 2014. The scene quoted above is the closest thing to sexual content in this fic, a single kiss between two boys.

I posted my first fanfic that included actual sexual content in December of 2014. “A Perfect Tree” is a one-shot, 847 words of Clark Kent and Lex Luthor finding a perfect Christmas tree and having sex in the snow. In fanfiction slang, this one is porn (or “smut”).

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Esther Spurrill-Jones
Prism & Pen

Poet, lover, thinker, human. Poetry editor at Prism & Pen.