Preverts

 

The recent and ongoing battle in the USA over reproductive rights has induced disbelief and horror in most other advanced western countries. What many outside the USA do not appreciate though, is that, for the fundamentalist Christians in the USA, the overturning of Roe v Wade is just the beginning. The decision of the US supreme court made their decision on the basis of the argument that individual states should be the ones to decide on abortion policy. And yet before the ink was dry the victorious religious loons announced their aim to impose a ban throughout the USA, riding roughshod over the very idea of states’ rights that they were happy to use only days before.

And there’s more. Emboldened they have also made it clear that they have contraception, and same sex relationships in their sights too. And at least one of the supreme court judges has already expressed his sympathy with this aim. This is no surprise. With these fanatics misogyny and homophobia have always gone hand in hand.

Nothing gets them more frothing at the mouth than contemplating, obsessively and at length about what other consenting adults get up to in private. Like Grumpy in “Snow White”, they don’t actually know what “wicked whiles” are going on, but nonetheless they’re “agin em”.

This is nothing more than a frantic, and fanatical attempt at control, particularly of women, and more particularly of female sexuality. The whole concept of female sexuality terrifies them. And this is reflected in some of the frankly bizarre mythology that some of them cultivate

So I’d like to present just a few examples of the more eye popping and absurd ideas displayed by some of them.

Like this guy.

Jessie Lee Peterson

A man who manages to combine misogyny, and homophobia with a breathtaking hypocricy as detailed here. One thing in particular that seems to have him incensed is the notion that women can have orgasms. How dare they?

And how about this for some really bizarre notions?

You don't have to be a gynaecologist to understand that you can't actually insert anything into a clitoris, and any attempt to do so is definitely not going to induce an orgasm. The rest of his rant just makes DZ head spin. One gets the impression that the reverend has never actually seen a lady's bits up close at all. I've certainly never seen any that looked like that.

The same guy also wrote this!!!

So he wouldn't like this then.

If, and I don't advise it, you have a look at this deranged lunatic's facebook page, to which I'm not providing a link, you will find a whole world of mind exploding ideas that you'd probably regret reading. Fortunately much of it is in Spanish

Whenever DZ comes across people like this he comes to the view that their utter obsession with other peoples' sex lives is far more unhealthy than any of the practices that offend them. They remind him of this clip.