Pornography in Politics: Republican Attempts to Ban Abortion and Ban Books Are Based on Politicized Fetishes
The hypocrites who don't want LGBT-themed books in libraries are trying to enact laws based on their own sexual preferences.
Ron DeSantis wants to ban “pornographic” books from schools. Tim Scott began his political career by bragging about being a 30-year-old virgin in his first run for office. All of the Republican candidates on stage want to ban abortion at all or most stages of a pregnancy.
Rick Santorum, another former Republican senator and presidential candidate, said during one of his campaigns that sex is “for purposes of procreation,” not “simply pleasure.”
The Republican candidates are expressing and promoting their fetishes to the world in campaign speeches and political debates broadcast nationally. School teachers encourage students to watch those broadcasts and sometimes even give extra credit for students watching a debate or a presidential speech. But those same teachers would be banned from having books in their libraries that include viewpoints that are contrary to the viewpoints of Ron DeSantis and Mothers Against Liberty (or are falsely interpreted as containing such viewpoints).
To be sure, the current crop of Republican primary candidates has been kind of guarded in their speech about abortion and birth control. They realize that their opposition to abortion rights is controversial and one of the reasons they have lost recent elections, so they are trying to avoid talking about it as much as possible. (But make no mistake, they hold the same positions they always have.)
So I have to go back to a more unguarded and extreme candidate to find some examples: Rick Santorum. Santorum’s rhetoric about “procreation” was almost pornographic.
“They're supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also, but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if you can take one part out that's not for purposes of procreation, that's not one of the reasons, then you diminish this very special bond between men and women, so why can't you take other parts of that out? And all of a sudden, it becomes deconstructed to the point where it's simply pleasure.”
He was telling the voters “the perfect way that a sexual union should happen.”
Many people have this fetish. It’s called “breeding,” and it’s fine if you have this fetish and you want to read about it or engage it it with a consenting adult. They shouldn’t try to turn their fetish into public policy.
Take this passage from TealTalbott’s story “Our Breeding Ritual” on Literotica:
“I am his delicate wife, who was born to serve the needs of his cock. To drain his balls. To suck him lovingly and eagerly. To provide my holes to him, to be used. And to most importantly, be bred with his seed and bear his children.”
"‘Daddy is going to put his cock so deep inside of you that there isn't any way you won't be pregnant by the end of tonight.’"
The characters in the story hold the same fetish as Sen. Santorum—that sex is for the purpose of procreation. They just also happen to simultaneously hold the view that sex is for the purpose of pleasure, too. Those are not mutually exclusive views, as you can see.
Rick Santorum says almost the same thing but he just dresses it up in a suit and tie and tries to foist his ideology on everyone. In the same way, if not as explicitly, the Republicans who want to ban abortion and contraception are trying to foist their ideology on everyone. If “sex is supposed to be for procreation” and "making you pregnant by the end of tonight,” then contraception should be banned.
wrote “fetish is a vehicle through which one’s political beliefs and hopes are manifested.” She wrote about a “trad wife” lady who broadcasts herself serving her husband in the kitchen and cleaning the house. It’s about the complete opposite of the gender roles I write about in my femdom novellas (affiliate link).I write about men who worship their goddess’ pussy and make her cum even if he himself does not cum,
men who must be punished by the Bangkok bar girls and learn to be a better man who serves women well,
and my own experiences being leashed and controlled by my Thai mistress.
I’m not trying to create a society where it is required that men are kept on their leash at all times or anything or the sort (although I might do so in a future novella as a means of engaging in fantasy or social criticism). I’m still trying to create a society where men simply have the right to be on their leash in public in certain situations. In so much as my fetish is “political,” the politics goes towards supporting people’s liberty and freedom to do what they like in a broader sphere.
The authoritarian force in politics is more likely to come out from the group that is already in the dominant position. Thus for male supremacist breeding fetishists like DeSantis, they want to ban people from even writing or reading about anything that contradicts his ideology.
DeSantis wants to prevent anyone from having access to materials that he fears could cause them to hold a view—or embrace an identity—with which he disapproves of. Particularly under attack from DeSantis are books about LGBT-related topics. (The reality is that people are gay and will be gay; the books won’t “turn” someone gay, but they might make someone understand better who they are.)
The American Library Association maintains a list of the “Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022.” Number one on the list is Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (affiliate link). Of the 13 books, seven were accused by hateful critics of having LGBTQIA+ content, and all of them were accused of being “sexually explicit.”
Activists are using DeSantis’s mechanisms to challenge over 3,000 books, including titles that do not even have notable sexual content whatsoever, like The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. They are literally spamming forms with repetitive two-word statements copied onto hundreds or thousands of complaint forms, per reporting by
.The real problem is not that they are sexually explicit. One of the top-five most-banned books was The Bluest Eye by great American author Toni Morrison. It tells the story of a young black girl named Pecola who suffers from sexually assault, rape, racism, and internalized feelings of inferiority. The reason it is challenged and banned is because it highlights problems that racist white activists who would rather downplay rape do not want to confront.
The books that tell stories about idealized nuclear families with the wife staying home and raising half a dozen kids are not banned.