You need to understand: the average American’s psychological state around sex is indistinguishable from that of a frightened Spanish peasant during the Inquisition
Everything is sexual and nothing is supposed to be. They believe sex jokes are Satan putting his dick in your kids’ ear. They believe nudity alone is mind rape. Sexual innuendo or reference might as well be molestation.
This is also the country where grown men take their daughters to “purity balls” where they slow dance together all night and talk about sexual preservation and making sure you dont break your hymen and become a whore until god has given you a man who will treat you right by isolating you and forcing you to live as a housewife in honor of god.
This country is going to unironically look like the fucking Scarlet Letter if we don’t seriously push back against moral panic induced sexual psychosis.
@DemonMama To say they are "average Americans" is to overestimate their percentage of the overall population. They're a statistical minority, but they do exercise an outsized influence.
@alexapagliuca This is true to a degree but also its not just conservatives that have american sexual psychosis. lots of otherwise progressive and chill people have digested an incredibly unhealthy relationship with sex as a result of the christian cultural hegemony
@DemonMama It's also true that Christian hegemony has imparted an unhealthy attitude and relationship toward sex, but conflating the majority with the minority you're describing is a bad idea. It encourages a solidarity among them.