Just to address the last line, being short on time for the day:
I believe there are people in this country who view anything but the standard "man on top, get it over with quick, and only do it to try to make a baby"-style sex as evil activities they would dearly love to forbid.
There's the other camp, thinking that anything goes, and that's the other end of the teeter-totter.
Frankly, either of the above thought processes scare me.
So what? What's the likelihood of that ever happening? I find it somewhat odd that a liberal in, say, New York or California spends sleepless nights worrying that somewhere in the backwoods of Virginia or North Carolina guys reading the King James version of the Bible think that sodomy, fornication, and adultery are wrong.
I don't think they really believe that their private copulatory adventures (in "the privacy of the bedroom") are in danger. I think it's an iconoclastic style of social protest to raise oratorical hysteria (for political purposes) about alleged, weird, religious extremists. It's a form of liberal McCarthyism, I think. They know that there is no political threat to "sexual freedom." They just strongly dislike evangelical Christians and devout Catholics and they love engaging in a kind of wild-eyed fear-mongering about the Bible Thumper Peril that is poised ready to sink America into a maniacal dark age of Salem Witch Hunts.
There are kooky hyper-religious freaks in various hinterlands of North America. Snake handlers and what not. I don't think it's credible that they pose some sort of major threat of imperiling other Americans' private copulations.
But liberals don't really want "privacy of the bedroom." What they want is public perversion. And they want to force everyone else (through the courts) to accept a totalitarian secular humanist dictatorship. What they don't like is religious conservatives engaging in public religious speech. Has nothing to do with any real threat to "the privacy of the bedroom." John Kerry and Company will try to play this card. Should prove for some interesting high comedy.
I just simply do not believe that Robert Reich is unable to masturbate or roll around with an inflatable female doll at Harvard because somewhere in Virginia Pat Robertson is brooding over Old Testament passages in the King James version. That's absurd. If he's that afraid of southern Baptists and Fundamentalist Christians, he should see a good psychiatrist.