many years my senior told me about ten years ago that he couldn't support LGBTQ+ equality because of anal sex and his disgust for it. I usually wouldn't discuss sex with him because I because I was brought up with a particularly old fashioned habit of not talking that way in front of my elders. It took me a long time to get used to calling him by his name as he asked instead of "Mr." It still feels strange to me to call people significantly older than I am by their names.
Anyway, he annoyed me enough with that that I pointed out that considering the percentage of Gay Men there are in the population and the significant percentage of gay men who seldom or never engage in anal sex that most of the anal sex that happens probably happens between men and women. Not to mention virtually every description of sex acts that straight people think of as "gay" but which are engaged in by straight People in no small numbers. He was surprised by the statistics I cited to him at the time - I wouldn't argue from them the same way today. He didn't realize how many straight men and women did anal.
So the revelations of the porn-poetry of the incumbent Sec of Health and Human Services in which Little Bobby seemingly tried to entice an alleged journalist gal decades younger than him to engage in the repulsive act of feltching (repulsive because it is disgustingly anti-hygienic and, so, degrading) and force being used by him in the act shines a light on what many may have figured was a "'gay thing" being very much a "straight thing." It's clear it was certainly part of at least his active sexual imagination as something he'd want to do.
It certainly did nothing to make me think of my life experience - I'm ever more respectful of other People and their health than just using a honorific title with them - it made me think of the media and political treatment of one of my heroines the Clinton Administration's first Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders when she was asked if Children should be encouraged to masturbate so as to delay the dangers of them engaging in sex with others. She took the question and bravely answered that she thought that should be considered as a possibility and she was vilified and fired for that great service to public health. Dr. Elders is, I'm glad to say, still with us, though I don't know if she's still practicing in one of the finer examples of public health careers I know of. I hadn't known of her stellar record in preventing prengancy among her patients in Arkansas, especially girls with diabetes. For that, alone, she's a heroine.
It is an example of the pornographication of America (thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Gingrich era Republican caucus in the House an, particularly, the scumbag Henry Hyde) that RFJ jr. isn't being raked over the coals in such a pursuit of something so grotesquely health and dignity destroying an act - I'm sure he's done it if he's broken out all poesy about it. If he's writing like that, he's almost certainly doin' it." We're a long way down the road from the hypocrisy of Newt and Hyde and the 1990s media. And about that, shouldn't sexting be considered adultery these days? I don't mean the law, the law shouldn't get to define such things because the law tends to rather favor the guys.
If you're waiting for the media and the hypocritical morality police to drive him from office over this? Well, what? Do you think they're going to hold the CDC destorying rich, white, straight ambulance chaser lawyer who should never have been allowed to hold that office to the standards they held for a fully qualified Female-Black-Physician suggesting we consider what would be responsibly given sound medical advice? Not when you can have an incompetent, dishonest, ambulance-chasing rich, straight, white, male Harvard Law oligarch who promotes the most dangerous of self-profiting medical quackery instead. This is America where someone like the total scumbag Little Bobby will get away with everything as the most responsible and honest and competent Black Woman won't get away with doing what's right. Our free press would certainly never hold him accountable, even as it's probably (and properly) cost his sexting partner her career in "journalism."
And while I'm at it, Hey, hey, RFK. How many kids did you kill today?
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