The GOP’s bizarre war on sex
Polls show we’re pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and ever kinkier. So why are the Republican candidates such prudes?
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/its_the_sex_stupid/singleton/
Yet another reason (as if it were needed) why I can no longer fit in with the GOP. There are already way too many damn humans, the idea of doing anything to increase our numbers is nonsensical at best.
As the article alludes, it seems to me that much of this boils down to the strong urge to repress women as nothing appears to be more liberating to women than being able to make their own decisions about reproduction (women having to invest such huge resources in comparison to men). So, to me, this ultraconservative right-wing blather about every sperm is sacred is a smoke screen for their real goal: minimize women and their impact on society. As long as women are barefoot and pregnant then they are serving their only ‘real’ purpose and while it might be charming to have an intellectual conversation with one of ‘them’, education beyond what their own mothers taught them about baby rearing is totally wasted. Seen in this light, the anti- contraceptive blather coming out of Santorum’s mouth makes a lot more sense. I bet if the media (as if!) were to play up this angle that Santorum’s poll numbers would crater overnight and he would never be seen or heard of again.
