‘war on sex’

Does Sex Still Matter?

In modern America, sexual expression can’t simply be a private act.

Whether people acknowledge it or not, America’s ongoing War On Sex means that each sexual choice we make either challenges or supports a complex political ecology. This structure involves fundamental issues like who controls our bodies; whose relationships are legitimate; which activities are considered “normal”; and the role of erotic pleasure in the lives of adults and of children.

Consider the current sexual issues now under scrutiny by the government…

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The State Of Our Sexual Freedom

Approaching the anniversary of our country’s freedom, what’s the state of our own sexual freedom?

There are many external restrictions on our erotic expression such as the criminalization of abortion, attempts to eliminate adult pornography, and the censorship of both school and adult libraries.

But there are many internal restrictions we place on our own sexual expression–and these prevent us from using the sexual rights that we do have.

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It’s NOT A War on Women

Criminalizing surgical abortion and abortion pills, demonizing fertility treatments like IVF, limiting contraceptive access and the Morning After pill—many media call this a War on Women.

No it isn’t.

As I first described in my 2012 book, it’s a War On Sex.

Framing this as a War on Women is a political mistake. It’s why there hasn’t been sufficient outcry from men about these various limits on THEIR rights.

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Go Tell The Government You Watch Porn

More than half of all Americans live in states that now (or by year’s end) will require them to prove they’re adults in order to access most legal porn sites.

How can you prove you’re a grownup? By uploading your driver’s license, passport, mortgage or employment record.

Raise your hand if you want to share that kind of data with the government—in the context of watching porn, no less.

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The Scariest Halloween Goblin: Sex Offenders

Every Halloween, in virtually every community, some obsessed individuals play out their heroic rescue fantasies by scaring everyone else about the dangers our precious kids face from strangers waiting to molest them.

Websites, local newspapers, TV morning shows, and activist groups dutifully repeat the same story: that people on Sex Offender Registries right in your own town are treacherous.

And yet the data…

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