The most important thing we learned from the American right wing last week is that women who use contraceptives are sluts and prostitutes. That Rush Limbaugh's attack on law student Sandra Fluke was the fleshy pressure valve through which this bit of ugliness escaped does not make it the exception rather than the rule. Rick Santorum, after all, is putting up a compelling fight for his party's nomination, despite the fact that he sees birth control as a "grievous moral wrong."
So yes: when the right-wing has reined themselves in -- made use of a verbal prophylactic, so to speak -- women using contraception go from being sluts to merely being immoral. But a look at the conservative blogosphere shows that the rank and file are unwilling to back down from the characterization of Fluke as a slut -- despite the emphasis of her testimony on the utility of contraception for health reasons unrelated to having sex. Nevertheless, Fluke is a whore who is "banging it five times a day." Look at the comments section of a relevant post on any right wing site and you'll see that similar ideas prevail with virtually no dissent. And naturally, these juvenile ideas resonate with juveniles.
These are frankly disturbed sentiments, and those of use outside the right-wing bubble can only watch in awe as its occupants out themselves with their own bizarre testimony. This testimony is consistent with a general pattern of delusion -- birtherism, climate denial, Obama derangement, and the rest -- that is evocative of the last days of an obsolescent cultural sub-species. These ideas are on their way to extinction, are no longer adapted to their cultural environment.
So perhaps the right-wing anxiety about reproduction speaks in part to a well-founded anxiety that right-wing values will fail to reproduce.