Friday, May 23, 2008

One More Right-Wing Fantasy Bites The Dust

Feministing reports on a study by the Guttmacher Institute that destroys the widespread right-wing myth/urban legend that teens are engaging in oral sex parties ("rainbow parties").

On the one hand, this isn't exactly "news". Along the same lines as the infamous "wilding" crap we heard a while back after the Central Park jogger business (a young white woman was raped and left for dead; a group of young black men were arrested, and right-wing sociologists and criminal justice types invented something call "wilding", which they claimed was some kind of initiation ritual that spelled doom for America until a serial rapist's DNA was linked to the crime), this just has the whiff of bullshit all over it.

At the same time, I want to know what, exactly, is wrong with oral sex. If I remember high school correctly (way back in the dim, dark days of the early 1980's when Ronald Reagan was President, and $1.15/gallon gas was considered outrageous), there were folks back then who engaged in it, not just as an alternative to intercourse, but because, ahem, it feels really good. All these right-wingers who have their panties in a wad over this aren't upset over teens having oral sex so much as they are disturbed that people might actually be enjoying sex in a variety of ways and with a variety of people.

My theology concerning sex was handed down to me by my mother, and I really have nothing to add to it: "If God made anything better than sex, He kept it for himself."

Amen. And Amen.

As a postscript, may I just add David Bowie's comments from the song, "Changes":
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through

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