There’s a bill that’s been proposed by Republicans that bans pornography. Shocking, I know. They want more babies but less people having sex. Make it make sense. Now, I don’t watch porn anymore. I haven’t in two years. I didn’t have an addiction to it. I just wanted to see how long I could go without watching it. I think this ban is an infringement on freedom of expression though.
Republicans love to lecture us about birthrates. “We’re not having enough kids!” they cry, as if they solution is to just start raw-dogging for America. They panic over “declining family values,” warn about demographic collapse, and push policies to encourage more births. But there’s one little problem: they hate sex.
Not just certain kinds of sex–all of it. They fight against sex education, demonize contraception, and lose their minds over anything outside of straight, married, God-fearing intercourse. They’re not just anti-abortion. They’re anti-sex, anti-pleasure, and anti-autonomy.
So let’s ask the obvious:
If they want more babies, why are they so hostile toward the thing that makes babies?
Because it was never about babies.
It’s about control.
Sex, when divorced from shame and fear becomes power–especially for women, LGBTQ+ people, and anyone outside their rigid moral framework. If people can enjoy sex without “consequences,” the entire structure of conservative power starts to wobble. They lose the ability to use pregnancy as punishment. They lose the ability to gatekeep morality. They lose the leash.
So they push abstinence-only education, attack access to birth control, and slut-shame anyone who dares enjoy themselves, even if it’s masturbation when you’re by yourself, pulling your pud, and just having a good old time by your lonesome. All this while pretending it’s about “protecting life.”
Let’s be real right now:
They don’t want you to make babies. They want you to suffer the consequences.
Their nightmare may not be low birthrates. It may be a liberated population that can’t be guilt-tripped, manipulated, or forced into compliance. That’s why they push forced birth while demonizing the sex that leads to it. It’s not hypocrisy. It’s strategy.
And it’s working–unless we call it what it is and burn their moral scaffolding to the ground.
Sisyphus Shrugged 
K, you are a brilliant writer. You really are. You should maybe write books.
This pornography that’s getting banned. It wouldn’t have anything to do with one Stormy Daniels, would it?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Surely something that was a cornerstone of the New and free America?
“What do you think about slaves and the raping of slaves, American saint, Ben Franklyn?”
“Fine and dandy. Though, in later life, when my libido has sunk, I’ll seriously oppose such things for about ten seconds. “
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I’ve wanted to write a book since I was a kid. I’ve loved reading since I was a kid and always wanted to get a book or something published, but these days I don’t know what kind of book I’d write. Blogs are easy. It’s just whatever pops in my head that’s pissing me off these days. A book? I don’t know how I’d go about it.
A friend of mine who is a musician text me last night and told me I should start doing stand-up again, and said if I wrote some stuff down for a bit I could open a few of his band’s shows. I could possibly pull from a few of my blogs and work with those. Maybe put them on YouTube or TikTok and get my message out there more.
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I think you should start with short stories, then when you have an idea you want to expand on you could pick that. I think, from memory Peter Carey one of our famed writers started that way, his books are great I highly recommend them.
You sent me a link to a comedy YouTube when we were at thoughts, you wore a paper bag, it was hilarious. I think you could do both, you could also do Spoken Word, like Henry Rollins does.
We have sex ed here from before puberty, 7 or 8 sure everyone giggles – until they show you pictures and a video of birth, that I can assure you drives the whole – don’t get pregnant or have sex ever point home, way better than prohibition does.
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I think that a book takes a lot of planning. A lot of structure. A comprehensive knowledge of a number of subjects. And an overriding philosophy. I think that you could do it. Its just a case of deciding what the philosophy should be. The fact that many of your blog’s subjects overlap makes me feel that you wouldn’t need to change too much, just re-order things a little. Putting things out on YouTube would be a good move too, in my opinion.
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