Re: Promiscuity Bashing WAS: Re: [UUPoly-L] poly & pop culture

[Ken Haslam <haslamk@dmv.com>]

A couple of years ago, at the East Coast Poly conference,  Brad 
Blanton, author of Radicle Honesty said in his Key note address 
(addressing some 150 Polys):   "You guys are the research and 
development arm of society".

Ken Haslam

At 04:37 PM 2/22/2006, you wrote:
> The implied connection between polyamory and promiscuity reflects 
> some of the puritan bias in our culture.  This comes from both 
> secular puritans and religious puritans.  The puritan cluture does 
> not like sex , does not like women, and wants to coerce its rules 
> onto everyone else.
>       Consider even Bill Clinton, who immediately fired surgeon 
> general Jocelyn Elders for saying masturbation was a healthy 
> alternative to exposure to aids.
>        Or the laughable George W. Bush who will only agree to 
> federal funding for "abstainence only" sex education in American schools.
>        Polyamory folks are pioneers in our culture who act like an 
> alternative way of looking at love and sexuality may be an upgrade.