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Does anyone have the right to sex?
London Review of Books ^ | March 22, 2018 | Amia Srinivasan

Posted on 03/21/2018 5:49:59 AM PDT by C19fan

On 23 May 2014, Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old college dropout, became the world’s most famous ‘incel’ – involuntary celibate. The term can, in theory, be applied to both men and women, but in practice it picks out not sexless men in general, but a certain kind of sexless man: the kind who is convinced he is owed sex, and is enraged by the women who deprive him of it. Rodger stabbed to death his two housemates, Weihan Wang and Cheng Hong, and a friend, George Chen, as they entered his apartment on Seville Road in Isla Vista, California. Three hours later he drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house near the campus of UC Santa Barbara. He shot three women on the lawn, killing two of them, Katherine Cooper and Veronika Weiss. Rodger then went on a drive-by shooting spree through Isla Vista, killing Christopher Michaels-Martinez, also a student at UCSB, with a single bullet to the chest inside a Deli Mart, and wounding 14 others. He eventually crashed his BMW coupé at an intersection. He was found dead by the police, having shot himself in the head.

(Excerpt) Read more at lrb.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: feminism; lgbt; sex
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The article requires a reader to divulge e-mail but Red Dreher has taken one for the team. Money quote:

But the sex-positive gaze, unmoored from Willis’s call to ambivalence, threatens to neutralise these facts, treating them as pre-political givens. In other words, the sex-positive gaze risks covering not only for misogyny, but for racism, ableism, transphobia, and every other oppressive system that makes its way into the bedroom through the seemingly innocuous mechanism of ‘personal preference’.

Personal preferences regarding dating and what to hit is a political statement too. This seems to be growing movement. For example, transphobia being charged against heteros refusing to sleep the the T in LGBT

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/

1 posted on 03/21/2018 5:49:59 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

???

Ask around.


2 posted on 03/21/2018 5:55:04 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: C19fan

There are wives who puposely deny their spouse sex.

There are women who weaponize sex and the word “no”.

It doesn’t validate any action against the aggressor.


3 posted on 03/21/2018 5:59:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: C19fan

How can a right force another party to provide a service?


4 posted on 03/21/2018 6:02:51 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: C19fan

Sounds like a Muslim.


5 posted on 03/21/2018 6:02:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

From my cold dead hands..........................


6 posted on 03/21/2018 6:06:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: C19fan

I DO!

Line up girls...


7 posted on 03/21/2018 6:06:36 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: a fool in paradise
"There are wives who purposely deny their spouse sex.

There are women who weaponize sex and the word “no”."

I wouldn't want a friend like that let alone a wife.
8 posted on 03/21/2018 6:09:56 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: C19fan

A right does not require consent and consent does not make right.


9 posted on 03/21/2018 6:15:46 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: C19fan

A prominent homosexual advocate has already insinuated that an ideological opponent of his should be b^tt raped.

So, yes, the sexual anarchy lobby does believe in the “right to have sex.”


10 posted on 03/21/2018 6:24:05 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: C19fan

Is that with or without a partner ?


11 posted on 03/21/2018 6:27:29 AM PDT by stylin19a (Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: C19fan

It’s quite simple, really. The exercise of a right does not involve potentially, or actually, compelling another individual to do something for you or give something to you. So no, no one has a right to sex.


12 posted on 03/21/2018 6:28:53 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: C19fan

What a stupid attitude.Nobody on earth is entitled to sex any more than they entitled to the right time of day.


13 posted on 03/21/2018 6:31:05 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: a fool in paradise
God gave us pleasure to use.

Go ahead and tell God He screwed up.

I promise you a miserable life.

14 posted on 03/21/2018 6:35:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: C19fan

The fixation on the orgasm is destroying society.


15 posted on 03/21/2018 6:36:46 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: C19fan
Technology to the rescue!

Maybe it can drive my car too...

16 posted on 03/21/2018 6:39:49 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ZOOKER

I’d be worried about some of my more personal parts getting caught up in the wires and gears.


17 posted on 03/21/2018 6:45:51 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: Made In The USA
My first question would be "does it have a MUTE button?

The male model didn't sell, looked too much like Swartzenneger...

18 posted on 03/21/2018 6:50:09 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: Made In The USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092746/


19 posted on 03/21/2018 7:00:49 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Keep the guns, ban the liberals.)
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To: C19fan

Yes, he had a right to sex. Or a left, depending on which hand he preferred.


20 posted on 03/21/2018 7:14:19 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Don't like my guns? Molon labe.)
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