If You Could Catch It Through Some Kind of Kinky Sex The Play Left Would Promote The Measles

As I was just perusing the leftish internet, I came across another in the long series of lunacy in which Alternet-Salon, etc are promoting eating shit, literally.

Everything You Wanted to Know About the Rise of Anilingus (But Were Afraid to Ask)  We’re entering an age of more sexual openness about butts.

I will note that I have mentioned that porn was promoting oral to anal sex in a way that I'd never seen before - eventually, as their audience is habituated to other spectacles, they will promote everything in a way to keep audience share. and Alternet is nothing if not in the business of promoting the porn industry. You'd almost figure they were getting paid to do it.

I read through the article a couple of times and don't see any mention of hepatitis, and any number of other serious infections and diseases known to be spread through ingesting feces.  In place of that, the article ends joyously,

Taken with the latest round of nods to anal play in every media form, it’s almost as if anilingus is a time-honored tradition—one whose time has merely come again.

Yeah,  I can hardly wait for those other time honored traditions from the time when drinking water was frequently infected with human feces, here's a partial list of some of the possible traditions we can look forward to (compiled from lists online).

Ascariasis
Cholera
Clostridium difficile
Cryptosporidiosis
Enteroviruses
Giardiasis
Hepatitis
Norovirus
Poliomyelitis
Rotavirus
Shigellosis
Typhoid fever
Vibrio parahaemolyticus

[Update:  I realized I left out a host of parasites, including worms.  I think even Alternet might think twice about getting worms making it kewl sex. ]

Having just been several places this morning where the kewl kids were, rightly, heaping condemnation on Chris Christie for making a grotesquely irresponsible pitch for the support of anti-vaxxers,  I decided to see when the last time Alternet, as well, dealt with the irresponsible parents who risk spreading infectious diseases which can injure or kill people and found that when sex wasn't in the mix, it was as recently as nine days ago

Anti-Vaxxers Ruined Disneyland: Why this Public Health Nightmare Needs to be Stopped

Well, I agree, being in favor of mandatory vaccination for all public school students.  But I also lived through watching dozens and dozens of men, women and a child die of AIDS, a disease widely spread among gay men through a far less risky form of anal sex.  But there's a big difference, the science done about that changed my thinking about anal sex in a way that it didn't for so many even gay men.   Obviously among the play left, today, science doesn't inform their thinking about this obvious vector of spreading that and many other infections because they're promoting eating shit as kewl, trendy, exciting sex.   My conclusion is that if you could spread it by some kind of kinky, transgressive sex, Alternet and the play left would be endorsing practices that were likely to spread measles, whooping cough, etc. 

I can add that just the other night my sister asked me if I ever knew what happened to one of my friends from New York City, the last of a large group of men I knew all of whom had died of AIDS, he being one of the few who lived long enough to take advantage of more recent treatment regimens.  I told her that she could find his obituary from a couple of years ago, online.  It doesn't mention what killed him, AIDS related complications.   He was the last of that circle of friends, one of several who worked in music.  All gone, most of them while they were still young.  That kind of experience, going to dozens of funerals for such people tends to make an impression on you.