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Step 1: Sanitize sexual perversions with euphemistic, even playful, language. Step 2: Bring perfectly normal proclivities under the same linguistic banner, thus blurring any moral lines. I speak, of course, of the word “kink,” a term that has enjoyed explosive popularity in recent years as its usefulness to the Left has increased.

During the not-memorably-prudish ’90s, the word “kink” appeared in 65 New York Times articles in a sexual context. Over the last 10 years, that rate has nearly tripled. (Other papers’ data are similar.) Browsers of the internet have responded accordingly, more than quadrupling the term’s search frequency since the birth of Google Trends in 2004. Yes, “kink” is having a moment. The question is whether progressives can use it to attain yet another culture war victory.

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It is typically here that the Left begins to howl its outrage: “How dare you suggest that we want legalized pedophilia!” Yet as readers of this article have already been reminded, Democrats said the same thing about gay marriage. Furthermore, the logic of “kink” is inexorable. Give it an inch, and it will take a mile. Already, pedophilia is being discussed in some circles as a “sexual orientation.” So-called minor-attracted persons are the beneficiaries, now, of a softening euphemism. Though we are unlikely, this decade, to see a prime-time television host confess his “kink” of partnering with children, that whisper is audible online and abroad. To be sure, multiculturalism will stoke the engine. (Isn’t it racist to deny an Afghan his bacha bazi — literally “boy play”?) Here in America, however, “kink” will drive the car. Having persuaded us of kink’s essential normality, the Left will expand its borders until nothing remains outside. That is what the “progress” in “progressive” is all about.

PorcelainLark wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:08 pm They invoke Judeo-Christian sexual morality, but I didn't see a single reference to divorce or contraception. Are we also going to ban rock music and teaching evolution, while we're at it? This kind of rhetoric can only be persuasive to the general public when it's underlying principles are selectively applied.

ZeroXJoker wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 1:15 am If they had their way they would. That is what they want to bring it back to where anyone who isn't having het sex for the purposes of baby making is some type of deviant.