Junior Anti-Sex League
Under every uptight, anti-sex zealot, there’s a slutty buddy fighting to come out, and wing-nut Republican Christine O’Donnell is no exception:
The new Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware is known most widely for her positions on sex: She is a devout Catholic, chaste, anti-masturbation, pro-abstinence-only sex ed, anti-condoms and anti-porn.
But Christine O’Donnell didn’t grow up in a strict religious household. For her, the turning point came in college.
While at Fairleigh Dickinson University, she told the Delaware News Journal in April 2004, she did things she now regrets. As the News Journal put it, those things were “drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn’t a strong emotional connection.”
So basically, as I read it, O’Donnell (who’s a button-nosed cutie who must have been hotter ‘n hell in her early 20s) did a bunch of fucking and sucking at college, felt slutty about how dirty-sexy-goooood it felt, and over-reacted. Permanently, it seems.
Coming to terms with your sexuality can be really scary: it’s a powerful force that can lead in all sorts of unexpected (and in some cases unwelcome) directions, as five minutes at the Savage Love archives demonstrates. I had a girlfriend who once told me that, in her opinion, looking at porn was the exact same thing as cheating, which isn’t too far removed from O’Donnell’s objections to masturbation:
if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?
It’s really sad that some people get all sorts of fucked up ideas in their head about sexuality. It’s even sadder when those same fucked up people obtain political power.
