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April 24, 2006

Let's Talk About Sex

Ralph Davenport, a Republican State Representative in South Carolina, has put forward a lot of interesting ideas in his time. In March, 2003, he introduced a bill that would have allowed parents to home-school their children and required the school to send the parents 100% of the money the school would have spent to educate those children. He also sponsored a pro-life bill that would have given due process and equal protection rights to the fetus at the moment of fertilization. One of my favorites of the bills he has sponsored is one that has been approved by the South Carolina Legislature's House Ways and Means Property Tax Subcommittee to build a 6-foot-tall statue of a fetus on the lawn of the State House as a memorial to aborted fetuses.

Don't ask me what that has to do with property taxes. I have no idea.

You may be wondering why I am writing about Ralph Davenport. The reason is he is now proposing a bill that would make the sale of sex toys a felony in South Carolina, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

To be fair, four other states already ban the sale of these "patently offensive" items which Davenport believes lack "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." Those states are Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and – big surprise – Texas. No wonder Laura Bush looks so uptight.

If you ask me, this is an attack on women. I mean, come on – most sex toys are aimed at increasing women's pleasure.

The sad thing is, women actually suffer quite a lot of sexual dysfunction, and for a variety of reasons. 48% of women suffer at least one form, and 23% of us suffer from more than one form of it. Common causes include having had a hysterectomy (1/3 of women have them by age 60), body image problems (caused by aging, weight gain, stretch marks, post-childbirth imperfections, mastectomy, health issues), childhood sexual abuse, feelings equating sex with submission, high blood pressure (more than half of women over 50 have it), hormone imbalances, and a variety of injuries.

If the Mayo Clinic can be trusted, vibrators can be very helpful at relieving sexual dysfunction in women. But in Ralph Davenport's world, none of this matters. I guess women should be content to just do their wifely duty, regardless of their own lack of enjoyment, and be happy they have a man around to take care of them in exchange for home schooling his ten children, cleaning his house, ironing his suits, and cooking his meals. She certainly should NOT expect her husband to spring the twenty bucks for a vibrator and spend any time helping her find a little pleasure to ease the burdens of life.

Posted by Becky at April 24, 2006 01:22 PM

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