[Albion Wilde]

This is a brilliant article. Here's another "money quote":

I’m perceptive enough to notice that liberal social policies don’t actually help people in those conditions. Especially damning is the liberal attitude that we shouldn’t be judgmental about sex. In the Bronx gay world, I cleaned out enough apartments of men who’d died of AIDS to understand that resistance to sexual temptation is central to any kind of humane society. Sex can be hurtful not only because of infectious diseases but also because it leaves us vulnerable and more likely to cling to people who don’t love us, mourn those who leave us, and not know how to escape those who need us but whom we don’t love. The left understands none of that. That’s why I am conservative.

[DallasDeb]

Sex can be hurtful not only because of infectious diseases but also because it leaves us vulnerable and more likely to cling to people who don’t love us, mourn those who leave us, and not know how to escape those who need us but whom we don’t love.

This applies to heterosexual, too. Especially ones from dysfunctional families. (I have resembled the remarks above!)

[brytlea]

Sex can be hurtful not only because of infectious diseases but also because it leaves us vulnerable and more likely to cling to people who don’t love us, mourn those who leave us, and not know how to escape those who need us but whom we don’t love.

Amazing that so few people get this. Sex is simply another bodily function, but that's what it's treated as today. And with horrid results.

[shatcher]

I agree. This is a very important quote that applies to all walks of life.

[shatcher]

I agree. This is a very important quote that applies to all walks of life.