Side Effects Include….

Greg is 48, in a relationship, and like most Americans, has prescription medication. He seems just like any other American, but that’s not the case. He has suffered side effect after side effect, each seeming more serious than the last. This is all because Greg, like millions is experiencing perhaps the ultimate side effect of sex; Greg has AIDS. I had only spoken to Greg via email prior to our meeting in which he agreed to an interview. We decided to meet at a quaint, coffee shop just off Government Center. As I sat, waiting for him I wondered what he would look like. After all, he wasn’t HIV positive; he told me he had AIDS. Based on my perception of AIDS through my studies and through the media, I expected Greg to be gaunt, unable to walk on his own, and on the verge of death. That wasn’t the case. In walked a tall, slightly overweight guy who looked just like anyone else. After shaking hands and chitchatting, he told me his story.

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In This Economy, Even Sex Doesn’t Sell

From the LATimes:

The women at Donna’s Ranch are crowded around the kitchen table on a warm summer night, dining on stir fry, tugging at thigh-high dresses, griping about depleted bank accounts. At this northeastern Nevada bordello, which marks a gravel road’s end, they woo grizzled truckers and weary travelers for a single reason: money.

Lately, the women don’t go home with much.

Amy, 58, once bought a $32,000 Toyota Tacoma in cash; now her $1,200 mortgage saps her dwindling pay. Some weeks, she could make more flipping burgers than flirting under a made-up name. Marisol’s daughters think she works at a resort; she struggles to keep up the ruse. It now takes months, not weeks, to bring $5,000 back to Southern California.

“Marisol,” one of her regulars tells her, “it costs me in gas what it takes for me to spend a half-hour with you.”

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Sex and Politics Go Hand in Hand

You may be asking yourself, “What does she mean, sex is political?” Well, it’s quite simple.

Politics are our views and actions based on materialistic ideals. You can learn a lot about somebody by asking them what their political views are. For example, people who are pro-life aren’t just pro-life because they believe killing is wrong; they just can’t picture themselves being put on trial for killing an unborn child. Politics are personal and self-centered. People pick and choose their lovers based on so many political factors that have absolutely nothing to do with romance. Does he have a good eye color? Was she an acceptable beer pong partner? If we have kids, will they be attractive based on our looks? Are his pants designer? Does he go tanning, and if so, does that mean that he’s possibly gay?

And what about people who base their sexual preferences on political party affiliation? “I won’t sleep with him because he’s a Republican.” That’s just crap. It almost seems like people assume that during sex, their partner will begin to blurt out their views on tax cuts and abortion. Unless, of course, you’re participating in some orgy on the White House lawn accompanied by Bill Clinton (he wouldn’t miss it for the world) and Larry Craig (he’s not gay! He said so himself!), I doubt that would ever even happen. But then again, I never thought I would see a man who could have played poker with Jesus on the Republican ticket. Touché, America, touché.

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Soulgasm: The Right’s Answer to Better Sex

Dagmar Herzog reports in her just released book, Sex In Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics, the goal of the emerging Christian sex industry is, in part, to sell what she calls “soulgasm” –incredible orgasms, a deep connection with your partner and “God’s spiritual presence.”

But Prof. Herzog says there is a weird paradox in all this: While evangelicals were loosening up in the bedroom, they were also becoming increasingly hostile to the sexual culture around them. Anti-gay and anti-abortion agendas have become the norm of the Republican Party, and objections to pre-marital sex, sex education (at least the kind that does not emphasize abstinence), contraception and even masturbation are also seeping into America’s already fragile sexual psyche.

“The religious right did the sex work for the Republican Party and actually helped the Republicans come to power in state legislatures, Congress and ultimately the White House,” she said from New York City.

Read more of this…it’s really funny….at nationalpost.com.

Even Today Right Wing Continues to Use Sex as a Weapon!

“The right still cares a lot about sex. It takes sex seriously and the left has given it to them,” she said.

A note from the editors at The Nation introducing her debut column stated that sex elaborates what it means to be human and the market culture understands this, “which is why we have advertising and Paris Hilton.” The editors say the right understands the importance of sex as well, “which is why we have porno crackdowns and anti-gay marriage initiatives.”

Since the youth movements of a past generation, sex was seen as a major part of the cultural makeup of the country, but people on the left do not take seriously sex and culture are used today,

You can read more of this at reformer.com.