The Plot Against Sex in America

[Agathon]

"ultra-conservative critics would accuse Kinsey of aiding communism by undermining sexual morality and the sanctity of the home."

Aiding communism.

See, we have all the best stuff at the CPA. We own sex, and the dirtier it is, the higher the degree of ownership.

[Elok]

Okay, let's all broaden our horizons here:

Planned Parenthood does NOT encourage bestiality and all the other silly crap Pat Robertson and company claim. Correct. They promote things other than abortion. Correct. However, they do support abortion as an option, which makes them problematic at best for any pro-lifer, obviously. It'd be nice to see a poll on public support of an organization that endorses contraceptives without the baby-butcher backing to boot. Probably a LOT higher than Planned Parenthood's. PP supports contraceptives and family planning too, but then again the dixiecrats might have stood for a lot of positive things in addition to segregation. We'd still remember them for the racism bit, so let's get serious.

On a similar note for the opposite side of the political spectrum, this is not a two-sided battle here. As fun as it is to vilify the ideological minority, the country is not divided into "pro-sex" and "anti-sex" camps. There are people who just don't want their kids seeing the Levitra commercials, or Janet Jackson's boob, during football games, but are politically neutral. There are people like me who oppose abortion but are all for other forms of family planning. There are people who are horrified by any sex on TV but don't really care what people do when there are no children to see.

And then there's the narrow camp represented by this article. It gets broad support because the only other option is to endorse an equally narrow ideology in the exactly opposite direction. So people go with what offers the most important thing to them even if it does involve "sleeping with the devil," so to speak. Me, I don't care about men having sex with men, and I'm sorry they're anti-contraceptive, but the abortion issue outweighs those for me. I still vote mostly liberal due to the fact that I hate the GOP position on most non-social issues, but it's a two-party system and this is what happens...

[MrFun]

The United States had a war on drugs, and it lost.

The United States had a war on poverty, and it lost.



The United States is now engaged in a war on sex. Anyone care to guess what the outcome will be?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Exactly that kind of attitude is the reason why the amount of people with STD's in public colleges is exploding.

As che said, the reason it's exploding is because of the paucity of contraceptive education.

PP supports contraceptives and family planning too, but then again the dixiecrats might have stood for a lot of positive things in addition to segregation. We'd still remember them for the racism bit, so let's get serious.

PP was originally created to distribute contraceptives. So I don't think you can minimize that. The abortion issue is more controversial and gets more play, but at the time of Griswold v. Connecticut (where PP was involved), contaception was something controversial.

[Dis]

I refuse to believe any material from the source of the NY Times.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Dissident
I refuse to believe any material from the source of the NY Times.

You loser .

[Ted Striker]

I only read:

Star
People Magazine
National Enquirer

AND

Hard Copy

Terri Murphy, I'd hit it.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by MrFun
The United States had a war on drugs, and it lost.

The United States had a war on poverty, and it lost.



The United States is now engaged in a war on sex. Anyone care to guess what the outcome will be?

This doesn't bode well for the War on Terror.

[chequita guevara]

Kids shouldn't watch tv regardless of whether or not there is sex on it. Adults shouldn't watch tv either. It steals your life.

[Imran Siddiqui]

TV

[chequita guevara]

It's a time vampire.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You didn't seem to complain watching my TV when you hung out in Atlanta .

[chequita guevara]

You have me confused with someone else. We popped off to a bar when we got there, then BG and I went to our motel.

And just because something is bad for you doesn't mean it isn't fun.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nope, we came back to my apartment and watched TV before you went back to your motel. And you didn't even have that much to drink!!

And TV is never bad... NEVER!!!

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Nope, we came back to my apartment and watched TV before you went back to your motel. And you didn't even have that much to drink!!

What did we watch???

And I was driving. So drinking lots of beer wasn't in the cards.