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Feb 28 02:08 UTC 2006

We are such a conflicted society when it comes to sex.  We have church 
leaders trying to make abstinence the only birth control taught to kids 
and yet priests can't abstain from having sex with the kids.  Many see it 
as morally wrong for two people deeply in love to have sex outside of 
marriage and yet feel it's a wife's obligation to have intercourse whether 
she wants to or not.  A father can freak out and refuse to let his 17 year 
old daughter out of the house wearing her low cut jeans, then he wanders 
to his office to watch porno videos of 18 year old girls having it on with 
dildos.  Aren't those 18 year olds someone's daughter?  Impotence drugs 
are so popular that the advertising budgets alone, in the US, was almost 
half a billion dollars last year.  That's a lot of encouragement to get it 
up.  But if that sperm hits a target, and the woman wants to us EC to 
prevent a pregnancy?  Oh, my, that's a problem.  Interesting the line is 
drawn there, with the woman, 1 and not with "if God had wanted you to 
shoot sperm he would have given you a rod."

We love and need sex but it's all wrapped up with power and guilt and 
feeling dirty, and that spills over into our politics.  And not much 
good can come from anything with that much baggage.