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In reply to the discussion: Why isn't Viagra fair game under the Comstock Act? [View all]slightlv
(7,800 posts)the Comstock out of mothballs. It won't make any difference that birth control for women is used for issues beyond pregnancy prevention. After all, we're only women... our "female problems" are beyond belief and understanding for these men.
However, there is absolutely no reason why Viagra and Cialis is not fair game. Behind the Comstock Act is religious puritanism that sees ALL sex -- even that which produces an heir -- to be sinful. That's on the part of both male and female. I would expect not only Viagra, et al, but also penile implants, and everything else that has to do with sex to be considered illegal under this act.
And if it's not... well, we'll damn well see that it is. If they try to do a carve out, that's going to be so freaking obvious, that it will call for boycotts of anyone selling any form of male sex help, as well as marches every month, if not every week, about the blatant discrimination.
Lysistrata had one way of dealing with war and things of men... cut our sex for the men... period. Turning the Comstock Act on its side and demanding what's good for the goose is good for gander only makes sense, and is something that even the dumbest magat can understand. After all, do THEIR men want to go without sex?
The only downside I can see to this is the possibility of more attempted rape, as men can go without (or so I've been told). Once men start having their own sexuality restricted, we might well see things like the Comstock Act, female birthing slavery, etc., go the way of prohibition. After all, it is religion that is behind all this. THEIR religion... not ours!