# Unmarried adult Dopers -- do NOT have sex, say the Feds **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568 "2006-10-31T13:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/41 "2006-10-31T18:23:15Z")
The administration has got to find some way to get their faith-based base into the voting booth next week. “See, we don’t turn a blind eye to the page-fuckers-- we are giving the pages the tools needed to not fuck at all!” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/42 "2006-10-31T18:28:59Z")
A triumph of willpower over the orgasim! Today nearly sixty thousand people have joined the Women’s Anti-Sex League. All I knew about her was that she wore the red sash of the Women’s Anti-Sex League. I hate her. Have you done this before? Lots of times. With Party members? Not with Inner Party members, but there’s plenty of those bastards who would. I hate purity. I hate goodness. I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. Well, I should suit you, then. I’m corrupt to the core. All of the above are quotes from Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty Four_. [Seems to me that something similar to this has come up before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=158182) ---
**Author:** ![AttackOfTheSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@AttackOfTheSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AttackOfTheSmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/43 "2006-10-31T18:31:08Z")
The balls on these people are huge if they think this is going to have any affect on young adults. What kind of fantasy world do they live in? ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/44 "2006-10-31T18:40:25Z")
Ah, a new nitch-market, and another opportunity presents itself! Cum git ur fake ID’s: 18 year old fake ID’s: $20 21 year old fake ID’s: $50 30 year old fake ID’s: Call for current market price…(PROFIT!) ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/45 "2006-10-31T18:52:25Z")
Man - thank god I’m in Canada - I can continue to fuck with impunity. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/46 "2006-10-31T19:18:57Z")
Well, the federal government can just go fuck itself. But only after it marries itself, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/47 "2006-10-31T19:48:27Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] Well that, and it is a good way to give money (OUR FUCKING TAX DOLLARS) to fundie right wing organizations. Brought to you by the party of “fiscal conservatism” “smaller government” “lower taxes”. :rolleyes: I don’t believe for one minute that the people who passed this did it out of some feeling of moral righteousness they did it to give money to their base, the “religious right” [/QUOTE] Fiscal conservatism and smaller government only apply when we’re talking about things that would actually, like, help someone. You know, education, health programs, assistance to the poor, stupid stuff like that. OH, I almost forgot the most important thing - we MUST have smaller government when it comes to regulating large businesses in any way, whether it be protection for the workers or protection for the consumers/stockholders or protection of the environment (all of which big businesses always maintain as their first priorities anyway, as is well known). Lower taxes are highly desirable for those making in excess of $100K a year, and particularly important when it comes to protecting the dead billionaire’s innocent children, who might otherwise be reduced to mere millions! But as for those living at lower levels? Well, hell, those lucky stiffs may only be in the 15% bracket anyway, or worse yet, not be paying any taxes at all! And funny how all those self-proclaimed leaning-Libertarians find a cut in taxes yielding them a couple-three hundred a year to be a far more important right than privacy in the bedroom or something silly like domestic surveillance of telephone calls, detention and torture without due process, or knowing the _facts_ of just why we were invading a sovereign nation. And they _must_ be far more important, because they just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for the Democrats - it was too risky, they claimed. Next thing you know, we might end up in totalitarian state, what with the looming threat of universal health care and all. No, I’m not bitter. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/48 "2006-10-31T20:12:51Z")
I suspect the real target of this approach is _still_ kids under 18. They’re trying to deflect the likely objection from that age group, “Well, if it’s OK for adults why isn’t it OK for us?” By appearing include young adults in these statements they are attempting to take the wind out of that argument. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/49 "2006-10-31T20:47:27Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > But then I’m morally bankrupt, and living in sin. Oh, so _that’s_ what the young kids are calling Manchester these days… > [@Nava](#): > > - so having same-sex non-sex is ok, yes? Well, so long as we can watch… ---
**Author:** ![Schroedinger\_s\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Schroedinger\_s\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schroedinger_s_Dog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/50 "2006-10-31T21:23:30Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] Unmarried adult **Dopers** – do NOT have sex, say the Feds [/quote] (Emphasis mine) Well, of course. We don’t want the _smart_\* people breeding. \*or the smart-assed, either. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/51 "2006-10-31T22:23:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] Oh, so _that’s_ what the young kids are calling Manchester these days… [/QUOTE] Same thing. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/52 "2006-10-31T22:28:16Z")
Unfortunately, I seem to be falling in lockstep with this program already. Lonely, so, so, lonely ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/53 "2006-10-31T22:52:44Z")
> [@Hentor the Barbarian](#): > > I’m married and over 30. Aw, shoot. Oh well. > [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Man - thank god I’m in Canada - I can continue to fuck with impunity. That’s a brand of maple syrup, right? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/54 "2006-10-31T23:02:18Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Aw, shoot. Oh well. [/quote] But wait **Kimstu**! In the eyes of the government, I’m street legal. And don’t forget - I’m a liberal! Anything for you! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/55 "2006-11-01T00:18:00Z")
Oh that’s right **Hentor** , I forgot about us amoral liberals not objecting to adultery! Cool! So, I guess I’ll be the atheist feminist bisexual single-mother crack whore and you’ll be the pro-diplomacy pro-abortion social-engineering government bureaucrat? Standard liberal sex, in other words? > [@nameless](#): > > During the act, I may also shout “Oh yeah! Take it, Republican congress! I am really filibustering your faith-based initiatives, aren’t I? Do you like when I reduce your appropriations through AFLA?” > > Then my girlfriend will leave me, I suppose, but we all have to make sacrifices. 🙂 Hmmm, I may have to be **nameless** ’s atheist feminist bisexual single-mother crack whore too. Once his girlfriend leaves him, of course. > [@Evil Captor](#): > > In fact, if we let the Pubbies stay in office long enough, we will undoubtedly eventually wind up with laws making unmarried sex punishable by fines, imprisonment, community service, etc. “Recriminalize fornication! Moving America forward to the nineteenth century!” ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/56 "2006-11-01T00:37:45Z")
Another, equally depressing way to look at it is that the Republicans give Government money to faith-based organisations. Then the fundamentalist Christians raise funds to make donations to their favourite political party. The one that stands for abstinence… ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/57 "2006-11-01T00:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=Kimstu] Standard liberal sex, in other words? [/quote] How big do you like your government, baby? I’ll give you a hand out! ---
**Author:** ![SkiDemon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@SkiDemon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkiDemon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/58 "2006-11-01T01:23:52Z")
> [@](#): > > training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages. On the other hand while I strongly disagree with the “don’t have sex” thing, I think they have a small nugget of wisdom here. I really think that a HUGE reason why the divorce rate is so high is b/c people don’t really have wonderful interpersonal/ relationship skills. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/59 "2006-11-01T01:44:51Z")
I just hope the program produces some insanely funny “Reefer Madness” level anti-sex ad campaigns. “Just say no to … life itself!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568/60 "2006-11-01T01:54:18Z")
[QUOTE=SkiDemon] On the other hand while I strongly disagree with the “don’t have sex” thing, I think they have a small nugget of wisdom here. I really think that a HUGE reason why the divorce rate is so high is b/c people don’t really have wonderful interpersonal/ relationship skills. [/QUOTE] So this old lady and her husband were sitting down to dinner, when suddenly the old lady picked up a spoon and smacked her husband on the head. “Ow! What the hell was that for?!” “That was for being such a lousy lay!” The husband thought for a moment, picked up his spoon and smacked her back. “That’s for knowing the difference!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unmarried-adult-dopers-do-not-have-sex-say-the-feds/378568.md?page=4)