ThinkProgress reports on the new funding opportunity for the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program at the Department of Health and Human Services.
At first blush, it seems like typical boilerplate teen abstinence bullshit:
The purpose of these programs is to educate young people and create an environment within communities that supports teen decisions to postpone sexual activity until marriage. Acceptable applications will be designed to provide abstinence-until-marriage education as defined by Section 510(b)(2) of the Title V Social Security Act, for adolescents aged 12 through 18.
...but if you read on (scroll down to "Additional Guidance Regarding Curriculum Content"), you see exactly what they're advocating:
Abstinence curricula must have a clear definition of sexual abstinence which must be consistent with the following: "Abstinence means voluntarily choosing not to engage in sexual activity until marriage. Sexual activity refers to any type of genital contact or sexual stimulation between two persons including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse."
The curriculum must have a clear message regarding the importance of student abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and must emphasize that the best life outcomes are more likely obtained if an individual abstains until marriage.
The term "resources" must refer to all materials to be used in the submitted curriculum.
Throughout the entire curriculum, the term "marriage" must be defined as "only a legal union between one man and one woman as a husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife." (Consistent with Federal law)
That means no kissing, no hugging, no touching over the bra, under the bra, no mutual masturbation, no nothing -- not until some pedophile in a dress says some hocus-pocus over you and says it's OK. And if you're gay? Tough shit, sayeth the United States Government. Keep your hands outside the blankets at all times.
Wilhelm Reich, in The Mass Psychology of Fascism:
If one studies the history of sexual suppression one finds taht it does not exist at the early stages of culture formation. Therefore it can not be the prerequisite of culture. Rather, it appears at a relatively late state of culture, at the time of the development of authoritarian patriarchy and of class distinctions. At that stage, the sexual insterests of all begin to serve the profit interests of a minority. This process has assumeed an organizational form in the institutions of patriarchal marriage and patriarchal family. With the suppression of sexuality the emotions undergo a change: a sex-negating religion begins to develop which gradually builds up its own sex-political organization, the church in all its forms, which has no other goal than that of eradicating sexual pleasure. This has as its sociological reason the exploitation of human work which sets in at this stage.
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Character-analytic investigation of people of any age, nationality or social stratum, shows that the interlacing of the socio-economic with the sexual structure, as well as the structural reproduction of society, takes place in the first four or five years of life, and in the authoritarian family. The church only continues this function later on. In this way, the authoritarian state develops its enormous interest in the authoritarian family: the family is the factory of its structure and ideology.
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In brief, the goal of sexual suppression is that of producing an individual who is adjusted to the authoritarian order and who will submit to it in spite of all misery and degradation. At first, the child has to adjust to the structure of the authoritarian miniature state, the family; this makes it capable of later subordination to the general authoritarian system. The formation of the authoritarian structure takes place through anchoring of sexual inhibition and sexual anxiety.
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Sexual repression aids political reaction not only through this process which makes the individual passive and unpolitical, but also by creating in his structure an interest in actively supporting the authoritarian order. The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.
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Now we understand a basic element in the "retroaction of ideology on the economic base." Sexual inhibition alters the structure of the economically suppressed individual in such a manner that he feels, thinks, and acts against his own material interests.
(Full text in PDF format here; scroll down to pp. 22-26.)
In case you had any doubts as to what this is all REALLY about.
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