Prop 8 and Sex
All of this drama around gay marriage has me thinking about sex. Well, actually, I’m thinking about sex most of the time. I meant it has me thinking about sex as a social and psychological force. This country, and perhaps most of this world, is seriously fucked up when it comes to sex and prop 8 is just the latest of million recent examples. Let me elaborate.
As Violet Blue (definitely someone who avoids the squirrels) recently pointed out in an article on SFGate, prop 8 was about sex. The squirrels who went to the polls and voted to strip rights away were totally freaked out by sex. There’s no other reasonable explanation. No one is bothered by two male roommates living together. Two widowed brothers raising children would be considered heroic. No one would need to protect children from the idea that two women might stand in front of them and hold hands. The only unacceptable part of gay marriage is what people imagine they might be doing between the proverbial sheets. That’s why we need to “protect the children’ and reinforce traditional marriage’. The real message is the only acceptable sex is between married heterosexuals for procreation. This is the ‘traditional value’ they’re trying to protect and they’d put that in the damn constitution if they could get away with it. This is the battle that conservatives are always fighting, and I’m fucking sick of it.
From now on anytime you see one of these right wing religious freaks on tv talking about something you should apply this new knowledge. Here is a quick translator to get you started;
Protect traditional marriage = Keep people from fucking outside of marriage.
Traditional values = monogamous heterosexual sex for procreation.
Antiabortion = Don’t have sex for fun.
Real American = Repressed sexually.
The Gay Agenda = People who acknowledge that sex is cool.
Secular Humanist = Joyful in their human sexuality.
In a later post I’m going to flesh out this theme of sexual repression and what it costs us as a society and as loving people. In the meantime don’t let the squirrels keep from enjoying a good time with your genitals!