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The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement (www.theguardian.com)

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The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means

The US supreme court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas cited the Comstock Act, named after the 19th-century anti-vice campaigner Anthony Comstock, in last week’s case about access to the abortion pill mifepristone. If you don’t know who Anthony Comstock was or what his law did, that might not have alarmed you. But it should have.

The Comstock Law has come up a lot lately, and it’s part of the Republican war on sex, and to put it that way might sound overly dramatic. But there is such a war, and parts of it – against sex education, against access to birth control, against the healthcare provider Planned Parenthood and of course against abortion – have long been out in the open along with a war against the rights of women and on the rights and very existence of queer and trans people.

Comstock was reputed to be driven by religious shame over masturbation to become his era’s most extreme anti-sex crusader. He rose to prominence in the early 1870s, when he convinced Congress to make it a crime to advertise, sell or mail contraceptives or give out contraceptive information, even orally, or to mail anything “immoral” – a term whose vagueness allowed widespread prosecution, including of a feminist newspaper reporting on sexual abuse whose prominent publishers, Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin, he got sent to prison. Like modern-day rightwingers he was a book-burner, and he boasted that he had driven 15 people to suicide.

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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

Everyone can start doing that weird bed bouncing thing the Mormon kids are doing. That's clearly a loophole that is acceptable by even the most strict nuts

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 7 months ago

bed bouncing thing the Mormon kids are doing

WTF

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago

Right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soaking_(sexual_practice)

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Bed bouncing thing?

[-] qantravon@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure how much truth there is to it, but here goes.

The basic idea is that they've convinced themselves that they can get naked together and insert and it's ok, but actively thrusting makes it a sin. So they will get into position and lay still. A friend then bounces the bed, jostling the participants about, and basically making them have sex but "not by their own actions," which somehow makes it all alright in the eyes of God.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Something something 🎶 fuck me in the ass because I love Jesus 🎶

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The porn here would be confusing.

So does the cuckold "bouncer" also degrade and humiliate the soakers for having weird pitiful sex?

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

I guess it's called soaking

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago

soaking is just laying on top with Penetration, but not moving, because God's vision is based on movement like a T-Rex. Then you get a friend to bounce on the bed so you're not moving the bed is.aeems like a lot of work for a disappointing 3 some.

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

Jump-humping is the preferred nomenclature

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

It'll never stop being hilarious to me that people that claim to believe in an all-knowing, all-seeing god think they can loophole their way around the rules and god wouldn't care.

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