Here in Wisconsin, Scott Walker (R-ALEC) just signed a bill gutting sex education in Wisconsin public high schools (wording has been changed in the original law that cited abstinence as “most effective” to “only reliable” way to prevent pregnancy. It’s all about “abstinence only” now, despite the well-known evidence that preaching abstinence-only fails to reduce teen pregnancy.
High school sex education. Transvaginal probes. I call this “Titillation Legislation.” Think about the inner conversations (if you want to call it that) of the "christian" men who are coming up with this legislation. Think about all those thoughts about teenage girls and women having sex. Or about transvaginal probes.
The “War on Women" suggests to me a hypocritical opportunity for men who trumpet their “Christian” morality to the skies to pretend this type of legislation is anything other than justification for their secret thoughts about underinformed teenage girls having sex. Or inserting foreign objects into women’s bodies. Do these men think perhaps that lower pay would return women to greater dependency on men, more amenable perhaps to the types of strange things going on in one’s head when writing bills to take contraceptive education away from teens or legislation about transvaginal probes?
This is an uncomfortable topic for me, as I suspect it is for most people, but it’s ever-presence in the media forces me to consider underlying causes behind this type of regressive legislation.
What if Democrats asked questions like this:
“Why are you thinking about teens having sex instead of creating jobs?”
“Why did you decide that a transvaginal probe should be inserted into a woman’s vagina? Please describe your thought process.”
Etc.
It angers me that this Tea/GOP prurience is not being challenged the way that people suspect and accuse suspected child molesters and “mashers.”