Thank You for Protecting Me from Pornography!

[dawn_felagund]

Forget the terrorists. Forget the people who have been killed in 9/11, the London subway bombings, and in the other terrorist attacks occuring daily around the world. Forget the efforts of people like my husband and my coworkers, who go out every day and risk their lives to stop crime and terrorism.

Because what we need is protection from

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[dawn_felagund]

It's probably not the appropriate comment. But... sometimesIamverygladthatIliveinEurope.

No, it's wholly appropriate. I love my country, but lately, I find myself so embarrassed by it. By things like this, when we divert money to fight internation terrorism to investigate wholly legal pornography and wonder why the international community scoffs at us.

Oh, and where do those people think children and families come from, anyway? Do they believe in immaculate conception?

LOL! Yes, actually, they do.... ;)

The impression that I have gotten from these nuts fundamentalists people is that sex is only for the creation of children. And you are not supposed to enjoy it.

I feel so sorry for those people. I would hate to believe my body to be shameful and love to be immoral.

(My personal theory is that people that preach such things aren't getting any good sex themselves and so don't want anyone else to have fun either! ;D)

do they mean women with that, or am I only paranoid, thinking "Euphemism?!" No, you're not paranoid. One such nut

[enismirdal]

Beautifully said!!

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you :) I was writing well past my bedtime; I'm surprised I was coherent at all!

[frenchpony]

I suppose you could look at it this way: Ten FBI agents will earn good solid U.S. cash by surfing the Net and beating off and probably never coming to any really solid conclusions (because you know the FBI won't let them give out the Bureau credit card number to get to the really good stuff -- er, solid evidence), and those ten agents will, for a time, refrain from trampling the civil rights of American Muslims with suspect names. This is what comes of living in a country founded by religious loonies, after all. People forget that about America, but it's true. We haven't gotten very far from our Puritan heritage -- the terrible fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

For the record, I've seen porno films. They tend to be stupid and badly made, and no one in them really looks like they're having a good time.

Why do Christians feel that, if their faith prescribes (or proscribes) a certain behavior, then they must see it made into law?That's not just Christians. That's fundamentalists. In the U.S., it's the Christian

[dawn_felagund]

These are the folks who stand on the quads with ginormous color photographs of aborted fetuses and -- get this -- signs comparing abortion to the Shoah. That's sick

[frenchpony]

What's next? Are we going to advocate arresting women with their periods because they are flushing that potential for life away?

Or burning post-menopausal, and therefore infertile, women at the stake for being witches. Ever read the Malleus Maleficarum?

We've got those pharmacists here. I think they were the ones who first thought up the thing about banning the University from distributing birth control. And you'd think that, being pharmacists, they'd know that not all birth control pills are prescribed for purposes of controlling birth. There's a nifty little sideline of regulating periods, and I know at least one woman who takes them for precisely that purpose.

Ah, but I forget. Curse of Eve and all that rot.

I think I first learned about sex through the pregnancy literature on the dining room table whenever La Leche League met at our house when Little Sister Pony was a baby. As far as I know, I don't molest children either, though I do mess with their minds, which is more fun anyway.

or you can test for STDs with

[dawn_felagund]

Or burning post-menopausal, and therefore infertile, women at the stake for being witches. Ever read the Malleus Maleficarum?

Erm...no.... This is a new one for me.

(Again, though, I find myself largely unsurprised. This world has ceased to astound me at the old age of 24!)

Ah, but I forget. Curse of Eve and all that rot.

But of course! ::goes off to count ribs::

Bzuh? Do tell. . .

Apparently, there is an old legend that is resurfacing among the youth population.

According to this legend, a male can test a female for STDs by putting his finger in his ear and digging around for some earwax. He then puts said waxy finger into the female's vagina. If it burns, she has an STD. If it does not, she is "clean."

Incidentally, this is one of the many interesting things that I learned at "Bloodborne Pathogens" training a few weeks ago. Of course, it's not true. (I don't feel the need to tell *you* that, but you never know who's reading this comment and digging around in his ear right now....)

[tarion_anarore]

Ai! I cannot even begin!! You are absolutely right! I'm not even going to comment about how right you are becuase the government doesn't cease to amaze me with their, uh, "priorities". It's like "here's a list of things to do. Let's start from the bottom with things I believe in, want everyone else to believe, and have no real important impact on the well-being of society. The stuff at the top can wait. It ain't going anywhere." >:0 Ahh

[dawn_felagund]

Hey, a rant spun from my rant is welcomed anytime! :D

Heck, I even welcome rants about topics not worth ranting over! (Off to rant about autumn drabbles.... ;D)

Lucky for me, I live in Maryland, in Baltimore, which is a very liberal region of a mostly-liberal state. I cannot imagine the agony of having to listen to this stuff--and have it treated as logical and justified!--on a daily basis. Much of my education was in science, and for a while, the evolution/creationism debate was really my thing, but then, I started to realize that you can't argue with these people! I'd often joke around and say, "Well, they could argue that the Devil planted the fossil evidence," and then I realized that they actually were! Scientists were standing up and talking about carbon dating and laws of thermodynamics, and they were chalking them all up to being "instruments of the Devil

[tarion_anarore]

"Oh, I believe in women's rights. I just don't think they should be allowed to work outside the home."

GAH!!

He'd probably get along great with one of my friends. (Although, said friend has the tendency to seriously piss me off and cause me to be at his throat frequently).

*makes mental note that I might not go crazy living in someplace like Baltimore, MD...*

[dawn_felagund]

Yes, then there would be a definite concentration of Feanatic energy on the East Coast! You and me in Maryland and Arandil in Joisey!

We could take over the world!