tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post8590059732606193323..comments2023-11-03T06:32:28.410-04:00Comments on Staring At Empty Pages: Failure to seek (and see) common groundBarry Leibahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14205294935881991457noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21503568.post-32112274290745704702010-06-18T16:04:26.706-04:002010-06-18T16:04:26.706-04:00It all makes much more sense on the rare occasions...It all makes much more sense on the rare occasions when one of these fanatics is caught talking candidly about sex. They are, for the most part, against it, only accepting it -- often grudgingly -- for procreation within marriage. (St. Paul defined their position: "it is better to marry than to burn.")<br /><br />These modern zealots are, however, smart enough to realize that an explicitly anti-sexuality message will go over in modern America about as well as a paean to Osama bin Laden. (OK, probably not even that well.) So they've gotten very good at casting their arguments in other terms. But their opposition to sex education, birth control for teenagers, etc. signals their real agenda.<br /><br />I've often thought that the right way to fight them might be with an explicitly pro-sex agenda. Tell teenagers that sex is great, and that they should have it as often as they like as long as it's consensual and safe. Schools would hand out not just free condoms, but also vibrators, the Kama Sutra, that sort of thing. The zealots would go nuts, revealing their true colors in the process. And maybe being a teenager would become a little less awful.Nathaniel Borensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03232212556909107350noreply@blogger.com