Sex and Violence

You can say America was founded on religious freedom, equality, and escape from tyranny.  You would be partially correct.  The original ‘modern’ Americans were the Puritans.  These guys knew how to have a good time.  Well maybe not so much.  Honestly, if I met one of those guys I’d want to jump out a window to get out the worst conversation of my life.  These were boring horrible people.  You know the whole idle hands thing, yeah, they were those super religious crazy people.  Hey, let’s not have fun and work so hard our hands bleed.  Oh, yeah and sex is only for children, period.  That’s some ideals I can get behind… and then run away screaming.  The American culture feels the echoes of this earlier culture.  Look at Europe, that place those sexless work freaks ran away from.  More vacation days, lighter work weeks and much more relaxed attitudes towards sex.  It feels sometimes America is stuck in a new Victorian age.  Sure, killing is okay but nipples are damn inappropriate.  Heck, look at our swear words.  A lot more are about sex and bodily functions than violence.  And swear words deal with taboos.  So sex, that normal and necessary natural function, is more taboo that killings.  This is kind of scary and unnerving when you think about it.  And yes, I understand the argument about watching a movie with your parents and then a sex scene comes on you want to fold in on yourself and disappear into another dimension for a while.

But why is sex so bad and violence is so okay?  Why is violence so celebrated and sex is so taboo?  Sex became this thing that is hidden away behind closed doors and never talked about openly.  And if you do you are labeled as a sex fiend or a deviant.  It had to be hidden away from polite society like it was damn plutonium.  Obviously subverted sexual frustration left alone and unchecked can only lead to good things.  Yeah, because nothing freakishly horrifying can evolve from those situations.  You repress something long enough and the fetish that comes out is truly terrifying.  Look at Japan.  There is a lot of sexual repression there and they laugh at our silly billion dollar pornographic empire.  The things they peddle over there are Lovecraftian in their unnaturalness.  I highly suggest against using the terms Lovecraft, sex and Japan together in one search bar ever unless you want to go blind from sheer emotional scarring.

The amount of hypocrisy surrounding sex is frightening and borders on the level of those corrupt mega church preachers.  So many politicians decry sexual deviancy and they themselves seem to be the most vile deviants of all.  I always take moral advice regarding sex from repeat divorcees who consistently cheat on their spouses.  The only thing the Democrats and Republicans can seem to agree on is fucking people other than their wives and husbands.  I wonder how long these men and women can argue with a straight face that legal and not horrifying nontraditional sexuality (gay men, lesbians and transgendered individuals) is bad.  Fuck them.  The moment they starting putting their little senators in other people’s election booths they lost the right to tell me what to do with my genitals.  And since when did birth control become such a hot topic?  What the fuck.  It seems like public opinion has so far lapped political opinion that those in power just said, ‘fuck it we’re turning around and going the other way to drag the middle back to where we like it.’  Boner pills are okay - whose sole intent is to smile in the face of nature while you bitch slap importance with your manhood -  but not birth control.  I just don’t understand why women don’t close up shop for  a few months and say no sex until you idiots stop this crap.  I guarantee that would do more than the 99% rallies.  There would be men with pitch forks coming to the senate floor screaming for the blood of any idiot stupid enough to get in the way of ending the dry spell.  I am very proud of myself for not making a premature ending joke… until well, now I guess.  Whatever, pride is a funny thing…

If sex is so bad then why is ‘the oldest profession’ referring to the job it refers to?  Speaking of those industrious little men and women in the mostly illegal and exceptionally unsafe world there is terrifying new (well, sort of new) information about sex workers in New York.  Did you know that New York cops use condom possession as justification for arrest?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-policy-that-keeps-prostitutes-from-carrying-and-using-condoms/254197/

Obviously this will stop prostitution in New York.  Taking away the safe avenue for people who chose this line of work will obviously turn them around into living in the nunnery.  No, you idiot, they’ll just stop carrying and using condoms then there will be a shit ton more venereal diseases spread around.  That’s like trying to stop marijuana use by confiscating all the rolling papers, pipes and bongs.  Because obviously they won’t MacGyver another way around that problem with a method  which may or may not be even more hazardous to their health.  People tend to be incredibly inventive when you take away one path towards their additions and desires.

Hey, did you know that “[limiting condom use] leads to HIV, Hep C, and then we spend a lot of money paying for these diseases."  Oh yeah, it’s fiscally irresponsible.  So not only is this increasing the danger for sex workers and those who partake and then everyone who webs off of that, it costs money for everybody.  The legality around prostitution has done little to eliminate or stop the sex trade.  Actually it most likely has made it more violent and dangerous.  The same war that pesky war on drugs made that whole enterprise really scary.  Maybe if sex wasn’t so taboo there wouldn’t be these evil murderous pimps out there wandering the streets with their frightening cadre of ladies.  Or maybe the underground sex trade wouldn’t be so strong.  Now that is some real terrifying Taken level nonsense that will make you sick to your stomach.

So here we are in the modern era putting forth policies that would logically create more safety issues simply to increase arrests.  Good decision New York, I am super proud of you.

 “To be clear: Condom possession in itself is not illegal in New York, nor in any other state. Rather, the fact that condoms can be used in court as evidence of prostitution means that police will sometimes confiscate condoms, interrogate those carrying several, and use them as part of the basis for arrest”

Yeah, that will end well.

“A bill written by State Senator Velmanette Montgomery would change that, barring the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution in criminal cases. Since the bill's introduction in 1999, it is has languished, orphan-like, in the state legislature.“

It just seems altogether unpleasant and unkind that policies’ whose intentions are purely for protection and doing well for people always tend to shrivel up and blow away in the winds of obscurity.  Or it’s ignored and stepped over.  I understand this a touchy and scary subject.  The law should be set up in a way to encourage safety not discourage it.  If we are so naive to think there are no repercussions or that that the consequences are only on  the ‘criminals’ heads only I am, as per usual, awestruck by the stubborn refusal to back down from stupidity.

Ben