Many times politicians find themselves caught in illegal or immoral sexual situations. Their choice to do such things makes their punishment appropriate, but the fact that such things ARE illegal or immoral is a problem in and of itself.

The time has come to stop viewing sex as bad, evil, criminal, abnormal and aberrant. Sexual pleasure is essential to the foundation of any society. The hypocrisy which seeks to control it by condemning it is outdated and it's time to cast off this silly preconceptions.

Everyone has sex. Everyone wants sex. Everyone needs sex.

Like all generalizations this one is universally true and situationally false. Presuming this may or may not be harmful, but for the last few thousand years we've been assuming the opposite which IS harmful.

We're not even talking about sex as reproduction. We're talking about the human need to touch and receive touch. Some cultures view sensuality as an element of spirituality--this too I am not talking about. I am just speaking of the basic physical and social need.

Setting aside sex and the irrational drive to perform sexual acts, lets consider another fact of life: eating. We in the US no longer eat to survive. We eat for pleasure, social interaction, comfort, and many other reasons--all of which also apply to sex. If eating gets out of hand it is a disorder, as is sex. But if one chooses to eat something different or to sample multiple types of dishes at one time, we don't lock them up, do we?

In an age where birth control is nearly ubiquitous, STD tests are accessible to most, paternity tests are quite accurate, condoms are damn cheap, women are the owners of their bodies, and sexual orientation is no longer seen as deviancy, why are we still so hard on the sex act itself?

Throughout the country family is being redefined as step, foster, and surrogate parents fight for rights as those who love and care for children. Genetic relation is far less important that emotional and social bonds--always has been.

If you LOVE someone, sex will NOT stop that love. If you trust someone, sex will not destroy that trust. However, if you are jealous, possessive, controlling, and medieval, you force both yourself and the one you love into a corner.


Imagine for a moment that prostitution was controlled, monitored, taxed, and a trade that required training and education--much like other types of labor. Just as one would object to an unskilled laborer building their house, no one would pay a street-corner hooker for sex. Just as women no longer need to cook dinner and allow their husbands to eat at a restaurant, so would they allow their men to visit health-code monitored brothels.

Most of the time sexual relationships consist of a exchange of goods and services, anyway. In today's era, not pleasing one's spouse is reason enough for divorce. So why not skip the divorce and let someone else do the hard work? You still keep your partner, friend, and parent of our children, but s/he goes elsewhere to get her nails, hair, and "O" taken care of.

Instead we waste millions of dollars in lawsuits, risk families and friends, ruin careers, and feed the media monster with the concerns of who did what with whoever else. We'd be far better of taking the time to study and understand the social reasons that people fail to be sexually monogamous.

If every sex worker--male and female--paid a tax towards health care, I bet there'd be enough dough to provide care for every child. Moreover, the culture would change to ensure there were no unwanted, unwelcome, or unloved children.