The Crowd in Her Vagina

February 21, 2012

Just when women in the US thought it couldn’t get any busier up in their vaginas along comes aspirant-in-chief Rick Santorum with another idea that has a whole crowd of folks dying to get up her love canal. “One of the mandates is they require free prenatal testing in every insurance policy in America,” Santorum…

Sexuality & Reason: The Slippery Slope

February 19, 2012

People who hate the idea of gay marriage often say it’s “a threat to marriage.”  Sometimes they throw in the phrase “institution of marriage,” sometimes “traditional marriage” or even “Christian marriage.”  Sexual Futurist has been wondering “Where’s the threat?”  Being hetero, married and the owner of a number of firearms, I am prepared for the…

Modern Political Sex Cult

February 18, 2012

The news is pretty much everywhere today: Rick Santorum, candidate for the Republican nomination for US president, just called out Barak Obama on his religion…again.  He stated that Obama’s agenda, “…is not about you.  It’s not about your quality of life.  It’s not about your jobs.  It’s about some phony ideal.  Some phony theology.  Not…

But We’ve Never Done It That Way Before!

February 17, 2012

This is the argument of tradition.  As in Liberia, the country founded by American slaves.  This is the argument put forward by the children of slaves: “In 1820, the American Colonization Society (ACS) began sending black volunteers to [what is now Liberia] to establish a colony for freed American slaves.  The ACS, a private organization…

The Decent, Everyday Face of Hate

February 16, 2012

The sexual futurist community takes its victories as we find them and, often, we have reason to rejoice.  Surely however, not often enough.  This last week in Africa is a reminder that, in the midst of so many progressive and regressive outcomes for human sexual rights in the US, the lot of sexual minorities is…

The Government in Her Vagina

February 15, 2012

  “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” — Sinclair Lewis Of course Republicans are the party of “small government.”  They would need to be in favor of a very small government indeed in order to get it up in a woman’s vagina against both her…

We’re All in the Soup…Together

February 12, 2012

Certainly there are exceptions but generally, when it comes to sex, conservatives are quite certain that liberals are destroying the very fabric of civilization while liberals cannot believe how long it is taking to get the conservative bootjack off the necks of humanity.  Straights talk as if the very sanctity of marriage and the innocence…

The Coming Sexual Elections: Transformational

February 10, 2012

Old School analysts and pundits characterize the coming round of elections in the US as a battle royale between religion and politics. Consider just one liberal example: Matthews on the conflict between church and state It’s about the Obama administra-tion’s decision to require as part of the new healthcare bill that religious institutions – colleges…

One Million (Angry) Moms

February 9, 2012

As reported by ABC, conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly has come to Ellen DeGeneres’ defense in the backlash against her JCPenney deal.  O’Reilly defended the openly gay talk host against the conservative group One Million Moms, which has organized a boycott of JCPenney unless they fire DeGeneres as a spokeswoman. “This JCPenney thing is a witchhunt…

Freedom of Religion (to Control Your Sexuality)

February 9, 2012

“If the president does not reverse the department’s attack on religious freedom, then the Congress, acting on behalf of the American people and the Constitution we are sworn to uphold and defend, must,” Mr. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said in a rare floor speech. As reported by the right-leaning Washington Post, President Obama has inflamed…