How did we let Republicans turn sex into a crime?

[Cyrano]

Let's get serious. ReThugs don't really care who's screwing who or who's getting screwed by whom -- unless it happens to be a Democrat.

At what particular point in history did sex become a crime?

I suspect it was during the Elizabethan era in England when fucking became a "sinful" activity. Of course, it didn't stop anyone from fucking. But it did make it something to be sneered at, condemned, and in some cases, turned into a capital offense.

So how did we let the ReThugs claim it as an issue with which to attack normal, everyday human behavior?

Perhaps they tuned into the frustrations of those who weren't getting any. Perhaps they played to the psychoses of those who were ashamed of enjoying pleasure. Perhaps they simply pounced on a religious superstition that condemns normal human behavior.

One example of the ReThug success in criminalizing sex is the impeachment of Bill Clinton -- a monumental testament to the stupidity of the American people.

So here's my question. When do we once and for all stop paying attention to men who unzipped their flies and women who dropped their drawers? Does this really matter when it comes to the major issues we face?

There are, no doubt, those of you who believe this is a critical moral issue. But think about this. Does anyone really care that FDR and JFK were screwing women who weren't their wives? Doesn't it count that they made the world a better place in which to live?

[Neshanic]

1. They have sex?

[Cyrano]

2. Do rabbits eat lettuce?

[Neshanic]

4. Yes, but the definitive body of work on the subject of republican sex has

yet to be completed, as it is very quick, done in the dark, shame inducing affair.

Jesus, I just described Republican businessmen too...

[Captain Hilts]

3. What's good for the gander is good for the goose...

[aquart]

5. You are innocently walking into a minefield.

You don't seem to understand the role of the Church, or the relationship to patriarchal primogeniture which is the inheritance of property through the eldest male heir.

Sex needs to be criminalized when it is necessary to ensure the inheritance of property through a particular male line of descent. Matriarchies don't care who daddy is, just mommy, so sex is not criminalized. But in a patriarchy, "unlawful" sex could lead to the theft of PROPERTY because the wrong son could inherit.

But women don't care about that, so they were told God would make them burn in hell. Ain't morality fine and grand?

[leftofthedial]

6. same way we let them turn treason and theft

into non-crimes

[cali]

7. you would be oh so wrong about the Elizabethan age

ushering in "fucking as a sinful activity". Even Puritanism was hardly the beginning. Try going back to the old testament- as far as western culture goes.

[Beregond2]

8. The Elizabethans?

Hardly! There have been many eras in history that were prudish, but that certainly wasn't one of them. The The Romans, pre-empire, were notoriously strait-laced. All the Semitic races of course. The Victorians. These cycles ebb and flow through history.