Sex-O-Phobic America

 But the sex/morality correlation extends beyond a simple misrepresentation of facts, it has significant socio/political power. During this past Republican primary, the voters in Delaware chose Christine O’Donnell to represent their party in this coming November’s election. O’Donnell, who has become the beacon for the anti-sex Acompanhantes movement is not just railing against secular sexual activities, She goes so far as to denounce any sexual act beyond marital monogamy, and claims that Masturbation is sinful due to the fact that one would have to be simultaneously engaging in lust, which in her scripture inspired perspective is tantamount to adultery…. Her plan is to legislate against sexual practices that don’t coincide with her Fundamentalist Christian beliefs….and she is wildly popular.

In addition, news media is replete with “shocking” sex-o-phobic tales. Church organizers in Ohio are demanding that a legally operating local strip be shut down because they equate the practices there with Satan. However it doesn’t seem to matter whether the practices of the Church offends anyone’s sensibilities. In the Bronx, New York, a School teacher is under fire for having written about her sexual past as an Escort. Parents are outraged. The young teacher’s ability to impart knowledge to her students, or the quality of her character also doesn’t seem to matter. These judgments are made both in the media and on the street because convention has determined sexuality’s place in our society.

While the average person can articulate *WHY* most acts that we consider immoral are classified as such, it is much more difficult to do so when one makes the connection to the sexual practices of consenting adults. Killing, stealing, lying, cheating, and reality television all come at the expense of others, which even to the most limited intellects is recognizable as “wrong”. Fornicating hurts no one unless these other aspects are incorporated. So the Morality correlation to sex requires the rationalization that God has made that determination, and the breach occurs due to denying the will of the creator as opposed to our own impulses. But there is an inherent dishonesty to this dynamic.

While the commonality of immoral acts that intend to hurt others involves deceit, it is the truthful aspect of sexuality which comes under moral fire. When the sexually libertine are socially condemned, those offering condemnation are doing so dishonestly by denying our basic nature. The truth is, most people have sexual appetites that extend beyond having one heterosexual monogamous partner for our entire lives. Yet according to their religious doctrines, expressing that truth is considered unethical