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To: RJCogburn
According to what you mean when you say "liberate".

The so-called sexual revolution in the U.S. liberated the U.S. to the degree that before the sexual revolution we basically had two veneral diseases [stds]. Since being "liberated", we now have so many veneral diseases [stds] that even the doctors do not know them all.
12 posted on 12/18/2003 6:16:56 PM PST by sport
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To: sport
Actually, the only weakness in Orwell's 1984 was its sexual sterility.

Aldous Huxley got it right when he described a dictatorial regime where illicit sex was widespread and totally divorced from procreation. Such societies drift into despotism, but it's the "soft" type of despotism rather than the hard type. It's Sweden, with its astronomical taxes, wall-to-wall socialism, restrictions on speech and firearms, and conformity maintained by social indignation and intimidation.

So a sexual revolution in China might evolve them more towards that model. It's sure evolving us in that direction. As sexual "liberation" expands, taxes rise, regulations increase. guns become more restricted, and PC speech and behavior codes become common.
19 posted on 12/20/2003 9:59:21 AM PST by puroresu
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