Sex outside of marriage leads to…
Pretty easy to see why the conservatives would be limited in their view of proper sexual behaviors.
[note - I don’t fit into their camp, but I grew up with it]
Lots of actions have demonstrably bad consequences for the person who chooses to do them. That’s not a reason to legislate against those activities.
Most people, liberals and conservatives, need their beliefs affirmed and validated. They also have ulterior motives, agendas, and insecurities. Surely, you don’t believe that liberal women fight against prostitution and pornography soley because it exploits females. They do it because they can control men by limiting men’s sexual options. They’re insecure about their own sexuality and ability to keep a man. Heck, they even want to ban sex robots.
https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org
This used to be true. But today lots of conservatives want to make massive changes yesterday - destruction of the government, eliminating or weakening programs that have been around for most of a century, religious influence on government which has been absent for well over 50 years.
Going back to the way things were 50 years ago means reincarnating hippies and free love. And long hair.
I doubt many young conservatives want to go back to a time when cohabitation was scandalous. Old ones, maybe. And a big difference today is that when conservatives violate their supposed principles and screw around just like anyone else, it gets reported.
I don’t see anything in that cite that links the people opposing sex robots to those who oppose prostitution and pornography.
Saying that sex outside marriage goes against majority religious beliefs may be true, but it’s cherry-picking. It’s not difficult to find other things that go against majority religious beliefs but that no one would currently think of proposing legislation against, such as the biblical prohibition against charging interest on loans. (Note that while it’s easy to weasel out of that one, it’s equally easy to weasel out of the sex one.)
You just described electoral politics in general.
No, I think in general, Democratic politicians believe in the positions they advocate whereas Republicans will pay lip service to whatever gets them elected.
Well, personally I have never felt at all tempted to have sex with another guy, and it would never occur to me to assume that any other straight (as far as I can tell from demeanor and behavior) guy is so tempted. What that suggests about the answer to the OP question is left as an exercise for the student.
That’s true, but it doesn’t get to the root of the question. Why are some people conservative like that?
If you go back one step, we find that people who are conservative generally score high on tests of authoritarianism, and of valuing purity. From that observation, you could predict why they want to control others’ sexuality.
You could also ask why they are that way, and I guess it gets down to the fact that there’s a lot of variation in how people think, and the subset of people who tend to be more authoritarian and purity-valuing are the ones we’ve drawn a circle around and labeled as conservative.
As crime rates have fallen so have rates of teenage sex. From 1991-2015 they fell almost 25%.
Sounds like you are trying to control someone else sexuality? Why is that.
Laws we have purely for the individual
Helmet Laws
Drug Laws
Schooling under ~16 or 18 state dependent
Laws we justify due to a claim of spillover effect
Vaccine Laws
Seatbelt Laws
Smoking Laws
Speed Laws
Please - people LOVE passing laws for people who don’t know better.
You can get an STD in or outside of a marriage. In 2014 (last cite I could find) 14% of women who obtained abortions were married (31% were cohabitating). Marriages fall apart for all sorts of reasons aside from infidelity. Of those"bad" results, children born out of wedlock is the only one that can logically result from unmarried sex alone, and that’s just by definition.
I know you don’t ascribe to these beliefs, I just meant to point out how poor this rationalization is.
The thing that astounds and appalls me about the Conservative/Religious way of approaching sex is that, by declaring one one type of sexual relation the “right” one, all others are declared equally sinful and wrong. This seems to be why Conservatives are completely blind to the concept of consent. A loving gay couple is just as bad as a rapist, to them. Here’s Rush Limbaugh, as an example:
I assume that’s the authoritarian mindset—the horror that anyone (almost always a woman, or a gay man) has the ability to choose for themselves who or what is allowed access to their body.
Thinking about this a little bit more, it occurs to me that this could be the “why” the OP was asking about. You, as a person are the most basic locus of control. Everything else flows from that. If you can convince people that you have the power and authority to police the actual boundaries of their body, then you have the power to control any other aspect of their individual lives, as well as of the community as a whole. Sexual freedom strikes at the very root of their concept of control.
What was that about sex robots?
[roy moore]God tol’ me to put it ina fourteen ye-ah ol’ ah tha ma-ahl![/roy moore]
Curiously, those convervatives that are so hard on prevention abortions tend to take a more, uh, ‘liberal’ view when it comes to their own unwanted offspring. So…principles.
“Have you noticed that most of the women who are against abortion are women you wouldn’t want to fuck in the first place, man? There’s such balance in nature.”[RIGHT]— George Carlin[/RIGHT]
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Liberal women don’t want men to have sex robots unless they are programmed to nag also.
You have a vastly more charitable view of human nature than I do.
Knows their place?
Like, in the kitchen? Or the cotton fields? Or the ghetto (in the original sense)?
And when people know their place, are they a credit to their race?
Knowing one’s place is a breathtakingly offensive concept.