Eight days until the midterm elections, and I don't think it's hyperbole to say that November 7th is shaping up to be the most important Election Day of our time. Yes, they're all important, and certainly the 2004 elections were big-time, as well. Nevertheless, these are more important. The choices have never been so clear, and we've rarely had so much at stake. We're faced with the option of careening pell-mell toward oblivion, or taking a step back from the brink and restoring democracy to the greatest country in the world.
I won't be so presumptive to say that sex isses are the most important issues facing voters this year. Stagnant unemployment rates, a bankrupt economy, corrupt leaders, and an incompetent administration losing not one, but two wars at a time, causing staggering losses of thousands of brave troops, hundreds of thousands of civilians, and billions and billions of taxpayer dollars, are but a few of the many, many options voters must consider next Tuesday.
Nevertheless, I feel that sex issues must at least be considered when casting votes. The rights of sexual freedom are every bit at risk as the right of habeas corpus, the right to equal protection, the right to due process, the right to freedom of speech, not to mention the right to freedom from terror, and to freedom from fear.
The Powers That Be, while seemingly otherwise occupied with other matters, nevertheless have engaged in a long, ongoing campaign to batter down our bedroom doors and dictate to us who, when, how, and why we choose to express ourselves sexually. Their campaign, documented on this blog, is nothing less than a drive to eliminate everything fun about sex, to reduce expression to a bland morass of polite and boring platitudes, to reduce women to baby-making machines, and to reduce sex itself to a mechanical, necessary chore.
Why? Why do the Powers That Be want to control our sex lives? I have my ideas, one of which is the fact that they want to control our bodies and our minds, making us compliant little worker ants and soldier ants, through the powerful emotion of shame. To do this, they have to control our sense of dignity and our sense of power, and to do that, they have to control our sex lives.
Observe the woman in the post below. She's sexy, she's sexual, she's brazen, and she's displaying an element of power. She's in control of her body, and of her own mind. The Powers That Be fear these images, because by their being available for you to observe, they're NOT in control.
That doesn't stop them from trying. The government is trying to shut down sex sites, sex education, porn movies, erotica, sex toys, sexual preference, and sex acts themselves which they consider "Unacceptable." What is their goal? Their utopia? Read Orwell's "1984" and you'll get a pretty good idea.
They say it's in the name of decency and of morally upright behavior. They say they're trying to prevent the corruption of society and of the sex act. However, an essential element of decency and of morality is respect. Respect for the choices of others. I may not like the way others get their rocks off, but if it doesn't harm me or my children, whatever consenting adults choose to do in their own bedrooms is their own business and none of mine. That's sexual freedom, and that's what the Powers That Be are opposing, and that's why we need to fight back.
Gore Vidal said, "Sex is politics." He also said,
"In order for a ruling class to rule, there must be arbitrary prohibitions. Of all prohibitions, sexual taboo is the most useful because sex involves everyone. To be able to lock up someone or deprive him of employment because of his sex life is a very great power indeed, and one seldom used in civilized societies. But although the United States is the best and most perfect of earth's societies and our huddled masses earth's envy, we have yet to create a civilization, as opposed to a way of life. That is why we have allowed our governors to divide the population into two teams. One team is good, godly, straight; the other is evil, sick, vicious...Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance."
If you're a consenting adult and you like porn/erotica/smut, or you like kinky sex or swinging or BDSM or you just like being left to your own devices when it comes to getting your rocks off, pay attention to the choices being offered, pay attention to the rhetoric, and don't just vote with your heart or your brain or your sense of justice.
Vote with your loins.
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