On the Sexual Intelligence blog, Dr. Marty Klein predicts that President Obama will merely perpetuate the status quo of the religiously-influenced taboo and criminal prosecution of harmless sex. Dr. Klein hopes that Obama will prove that prediction wrong.
Dr. Klein also provides a handy list of things that need fixing on the sexual front. Check out the Sexual Intelligence for more great posts. And do what you can to urge Obama to fight this war (as well as the other pointless wars) instead of perpetuating it. Here’s the list, in full (because I was going to just pick a few of my favorites, but they’re all absolutely spot on).
* End funding for abstinence-only training in public schools.
* End the Department of Justice’s war on adult entertainment. Keep the war on child porn. Make it clear they’re two different things.
* Decriminalize all consensual sex that teens have with other teens. Decriminalize teens sharing photos of themselves having sex.
* Increase financial support for Planned Parenthood, an investment proven to reduce poverty and domestic violence.
* Take the moral leadership to decrease abortion—by funding contraception services and comprehensive sex education, not by criminalizing abortion.
* Require all sex education programs to be scientifically accurate. Isn’t that required by the policies of car manufacturers, meat-packing plants, and toothpaste makers?
* Require all municipalities that want to restrict commercial sexual expression (strip clubs, adult bookstores, swing clubs, etc.) to actually demonstrate a need to do so, rather than simply claim “effects like crime, disease, and blight are well-established.” Because they’re not.
* Require all federal judges to take a Continuing Education course about sexuality. Healthy sexuality, not “sex addiction” or child molestation. Make this education mandatory for anyone aspiring to be a judge.
* Get the FCC out of the censorship business. Let Americans use the “off” and “change channel” buttons on their TV remotes whenever they want; it’s good practice for voting.
* Remove the blocking software from every federally-funded computer in America—libraries, universities, airports. Start with the computers in the White House and Congress.
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Too bad he left out the legalization of prostitution.
Although I agree with you on that, I think he probably left it out because it’s even more of a touchy subject. I’m all for entirely ridding society of the idea of any touchy subjects (what I mean is making it so that no subject is touchy or taboo), but it’s doubtful we’ll be able to accomplish it all in one big sweep. And, perhaps Dr. Klein doesn’t think prostitution should be legalized. I think that it already is legal, but they just redefine it, and as long as the government is getting a cut, it’s okay. (e.g., porn)