Thinking more about sex
After reading the Oliphant piece this weekend, my husband pointed out how stunning it was that folks on the right had come to hate him so very, very much. As I mulled that over, it connected with something else I've been mulling over (why the term "values voters" drives me so particularly nuts) and I realized something -- it's about sex.
If you look at the key issues listed, then values voters didn't vote on values. They voted on sexual values. What galvanized the anti-Clinton movement so completely? Sex. What is gay marriage about? Sex. What do the Christian values supported by values voters have in common that other Christian values, such as social justice, charity, and yes, even the death penalty, have in common? Sex. And, by the way, if one looks very carefully, what is a common thread among many fundamentalist movements around the world, both Christian and non-Christian alike? Sex.
Months and months ago (7 May, Washington Post), Charles Krauthammer did a piece on the role of sex in Abu Ghraib. I'd forgotten it, and I shouldn't have. As even I have been pushing that liberals have to learn to talk about how our faiths drive us and our agenda just as much as faith drives the conservative agenda, I forgot to consider where sex fits into that argument. Something I want to think a whole lot more about.
4 Comments:
You are forgetting the ABC story that asserted Republicans have more satisfied sex lives. If it is such a taboo on the right wing, why did the survey find a higher rate of satisfaction?
Lower expectations, Keith...lower expectations. I'll just leave it at that.
HA!
David You’re hilarious! However, I think the lack of liberal sexual satisfaction comes from the inherent need of liberals to 'get more', call it the entitlement culture. This may also explain the aberration in statistics wherein more liberals stay single longer than conservatives...they may have figured out that married people have less sex!
Regardless of whether Republicans are more satisfied with their sex lives, and whether that means they're satisfied with, well, less, Tiziana makes a great point -- Republicans are obsessed with eveyone else's sexual lives.
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