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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why isn't Viagra fair game under the Comstock Act? [View all]
RWers want to not only ban abortions, they are coming for birth control. But if birth control is obscene, shouldnt Viagra be considered as well. I mean if this ever becomes a matter for the originalists, they should consider that Comstock wanted to ban birth control because he thought it encouraged women to be lewd, obscene and promiscuous.
If thats the rationale, then doesnt Viagra encourage the same behavior?
Birth control is used for reasons other than birth control. Fibroids and PCOS symptoms are often treated with birth control.
I dont know of any other reason for Viagra other than causing an erection for sex. Im sure Comstock would find this obscene and lewd.
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Many men jump through those hoops to keep their wives from finding out
getagrip_already
Jun 2024
#42
Dems need to keep citing the Comstock Act as a law that could ban "everything from condoms to Viagra" in the mail.
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2024
#3
I bet the majority of Viagra is bought by Incels, ammosexuals, trumpsters, etc. But haven't reviewed stats.
Silent Type
Jun 2024
#6
As long as rape is an option for these a holes "Lysistrata" will never work.
littlemissmartypants
Jun 2024
#9
You should read the Comstock Act. It specifically mentions abortion. Viagra and Cialis don't cause abortions.
onenote
Jun 2024
#36
Were they not people who were prosecuted for other " obscenities" in the past?
tulipsandroses
Jun 2024
#47
I get that part but isn't the Democratic message also that the GOP are coming after contraception
In It to Win It
Jun 2024
#49
Yes it should. And if they continue to say life begins at conception then they need to start charging
Maraya1969
Jun 2024
#12
Right you are. But if the women aren't supposed to have sex, who are the men going to have sex with?
raccoon
Jun 2024
#17
OR they say, "Lots of women like Viagra too!" As if the vast majority men weren't completely
Scrivener7
Jun 2024
#46
If we could link viagra and abortion laws, abortion would be permanently legal immediately.
Irish_Dem
Jun 2024
#25
Trump has total permanent immunity from all laws, rules, norms, traditions, agreements.
Irish_Dem
Jun 2024
#29