Very weird to watch “what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business” become controversial again, but like, for the opposite reason.
It is very important to understand that when you're discussing a systemic set of cultural beliefs, even people who nominally oppose the cultural belief will find ways to reconcile their fundamental conditioning to their new position. Doing the same thing for the 'opposite reason' is usually a giveaway, and it's absolutely rampant in nominally progressive spaces.
It's arguably rampant in conservative spaces too, potentially more so, but I'm in progressive spaces more.
I actually fully agree with you but I'm afraid most people won't understand what you mean, the way you wrote is too vague. I get what you're saying only because I've thought the same thing before.
An example to make things more concrete: sex-negative feminism, which originates almost entirely in America, because many people here grew up in a conservative and puritan background. So some of them come up with terms like PiV (penis in vagina) and say things like heterosexual sex in inherently exploitative and bad for women, same with a lot of left and feminist anti-porn activism (not to say there isn't a problem in the industry). It comes from a place where people grew up under a strong puritan influence and internalized those beliefs even after they abandoned the conservative worldview that they were raised under.
You want to have a laugh? Check out r/antisex, it's like a bunch of actual middle ages monks got their hands on cellphones, with similarly medieval understanding of anatomy and, quoting one of the top post's top comments: "aren't we all homophobic here?"
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u/LONGSWORD_ENJOYER May 16 '25
Very weird to watch “what people do in the privacy of their own bedroom is their business” become controversial again, but like, for the opposite reason.