An interesting article in the ABC's news website last week highlighted some interesting attitudes towards sex in America. Or rather, some local governments' attempts to crack down on activities that are "detrimental to the health and morality of the State". Do the incidents described show the prevalence of over-zealous bible bashers, or am I just too liberal? Frankly, I don't care, because I don't live in America (although these attitudes would not be out of place in Barbados). I have highlighted this article for entertainment purposes.
For although you may understand a council's desire to root out on public indecency (while at the same time being sympathetic to the man who lost his job and wife after he was caught short in a park), the attempt to crack on "simulated sex acts", in this case being performed by Chippendales dancers for (apparently) 80-year old ladies, makes for funny reading. What is really hilarious is that a US Court of Appeals has ruled that "communities have a 'legitimate legislative interest in discouraging prurient interests in autonomous sex' ". I fail to see how anyone's interest in "autonomous sex" (which apparently refers to masturbation, that most evil of adolosecent past times) affects wider society.
However, the Family Research Council (a Christian group that promotes traditional family values) disagrees. An Action Alert on their website insists that "Traditional marriage is in grave peril across the nation, thanks to activist judges and radical legislators in Massachusetts, California, and other states". A representative insisted that "Society does have an interest in people's private sexual behavior."
After all, we don't want our sons (and daughters) going blind.
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