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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy does sexual "misconduct" automatically...
... trump (sic) possible votes on income inequality and climate change? I'm not focussing on any individual... just on the notion that a person's political positions are not trivial.
Why is it that "sex" trumps everything???????
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)Why does sex sell to the exclusion of policy issues?
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Like Marsha Blackburn illustrated when she could not define carried interest. And she is writing tax policy.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Our society has a prurient interest in sex. It is not fit for polite conversation, but watch out when it rears its head. The dams of propriety break and suddenly we are caught up in the deluge of sex stories.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)If our society wasn't so "Puritan" and closed off about sexual practices and nudity, much of what we think of as porn would probably go poof!
It's not about the apple. It's about the prohibition. Make something "forbidden fruit" and its value goes up on curiosity alone.