What sexual 'freedom' has wrought
how rebellion against inhibition has raped the culture
Aren't we lucky to live in an era of sexual freedom?
Lucky to disown our founder's beliefs that God watches and judges us?
Lucky the sexual revolution taught Americans to "let it all hang out"?
Lucky the sexual revolution taught Americans that sex was an appetite – like eating? Lucky to have one-night-stands, wherever and whenever, that ended frustration and created an erotic paradise and world peace?
Lucky to learn that Victorian, Puritan sexual inhibition caused sexual violence?
After 50 years of ridiculing sexual inhibition we can now look around and see just who has benefited from our widespread sexual freedoms.
Children? Women? Teens? The nation? The world?
I see the beneficiaries of sexual freedom as an ever-growing, powerful body of revolutionaries: pedophiles and pederasts, exhibitionists and voyeurs, rapists and bi/trans/homosexual sadists, adulterers, pimps, prostitutes, and sundry other exploited and exploitive women and men, people who are commonly addicted to legal and/or illegal drugs, including their pornographies of choice, erototoxins that mask their painful awareness of their impotence, emptiness and trauma.
In 2006, quoting officially lower rape rates, several emancipated sexually challenged lawyers claimed increased sexual freedom and pornography use had reduced rape.
Of course, freeing sexual lust meant that sex crimes were by then pandemic. I found police were "reducing rape with an eraser." Moreover, once the sexual revolution hit, rapes of children under age 12 were inexplicably excised from FBI rape reports.
Now Human Rights Watch confirms the "Rape Eraser Phenomenon," reporting that "12,669 untested rape kits" lay rotting in Los Angeles County storage (as in other states and university campuses).
In 2007, the city of Los Angeles recorded 1,474 rapes, (averaging over four a day). A paltry 25 percent of rapes led to arrests, and children still were uncounted in the rape data.
In 1948, roughly half of U.S. states in our sexually inhibited society permitted the death penalty or life for rape. The rest were slightly more lenient. However, after the Kinseyan sexual revolution even child rape victim testimonies were largely ignored by the court, and predators began walking free.
For rapists were defending their crimes as "consensual." Even if not, judges and juries were increasingly told rape was "just overenthusiastic sex" after all.
In the late 1970s, decades after the sexual revolution, the herculean labors of a few victim advocates produced a sexual assault evidence kit, SAEK. These new "rape kits" included biological evidence, DNA, carefully collected from the bodies of rape or sexual abuse victims after a traumatizing assault.
By 1982, thanks to President Reagan's "Victims of Crime Act," the criminal justice system began to recognize that victims, as well as offenders, had rights. Rape kit evidence became crucial tools to justify arrests and convictions.
Although DNA evidence now can confirm the crime, since predators receive light or no jail time, rape reporting was and still is limited. Indeed, "hate crime" legislation may dub some current crimes protected "paraphilias." Much depends on the secret morals of law enforcement and our judiciary. Consider:
In 1992 a chief justice of New York's highest court – aspiring to the U.S. Supreme Court – was caught stalking his lover and mailing her teen daughter pornography. In 2002, an Orange County Superior Court judge was arrested for seducing boys, and for child pornography. In 2008 a judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and in 2009 a Delaware Supreme Court chief justice were each caught sending pornography to chums – and in 2007 a federal prosecutor was caught seeking sex with a 5-year-old.
Do Americans expect justice from such men or from the system they represent?
While these selected May 6 and 7 arrests below from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children name no judges, prosecutors, presidents or legislators, the following criminal sample represents a growing sexually predatory population that shapes our world. News flash: sex addicts commonly use all of their power to defame and crush any who may thwart or expose their sexual lusts.
A Bridgeport man, out two months for kidnap-rape, just tried raping a 16-year-old girl. The judge cavalierly gave the predatory rapist 18 months jail and electronic watch.
A NASA scientist is arrested for child pornography on a government computer.
A Texas Boys and Girls Club director is arrested for sexual performance by a child and possessing child pornography.
A Salt Lake City, Utah, Fire Agency captain is arrested for child pornography.
A South Bend, Ind., High School coach admits sexual assault of her female student.
A San Diego elementary school teacher is arrested for sex with her student.
A Texas A&M education administrator is arrested for indecent act on a boy.
A Clifton, N.J., math teacher is arrested for sexually assaulting his female student.
A Tampa, Fla., firefighter/paramedic has marijuana and child pornography at home.
A Liberty, Mo., minister is arrested for enticing a child, attempted statutory rape.
A Racine, Wis., police department veteran is arrested for child sex abuse, incest, etc.
A Tulsa, Okla., high school teacher gets 476 years for sex abuse of a 13-year-old girl.
A Birmingham, Ala., youth minister took a 15-year-old girl to the next state for sex.
An Orange County, Calif., coach gets 180 days probation for child pornography cache.
How have these judges, teachers, coaches, ministers, firefighters, paramedics, NASA scientists, police, child group directors and their like treated those in their power?
The sexual revolution has been on a roll since the Kinsey bomb hit in 1948.
The lack of sexual inhibition leaves worldwide leaders subject to blackmail and bribery, and to secretly serving the special interests of other closet deviants.
As "hate crime" definitions become legislated, note that protecting "paraphilias" will absolutely empower misogynists, heterophobes, child molesters and sundry odd post-sexualized revolutionaries. Beyond "just" poverty, troubling times lay ahead.
Watch your judges, legislators, teachers and police – Oh, and let's hear it for sexual inhibition!