Many on the Right feel everyone should have the freedom to own weapons. They think, implicitly, everyone is capable of proper usage of guns and that just because a certain number of individuals clearly intend to use them to the detriment of others, that that is no excuse to keep them out of the hands of everyone else. They are supportive of education in proper use of firearms.
So why the different attitude toward sex?
I guess a possible answer, if I believed it, would be "guns merely kill people, but illicit sex is a sin and endangers immortal souls, which is clearly a more important issue and one more worthy of our concern."
Hmm.
It's a little like the oft-noted fact that you can get away with showing more violence in movies than you can sexual content. Horrible bloody dismemberment and dozens of vividly depicted deaths? OK.
A few seconds of nudity? Horror! Adult content! Warn the public! (If it's male nudity, forget it. Just having such a movie playing in the same building will probably warp the children's fragile little minds.)
I used to think it was very weird that a guy I know would calmly watch the bloodiest thing you could think of, but found explicit sex scenes discomforting. You're OK with depictions of people dying in agony, but not depictions of people expressing friendly physical relationships?
Eventually I decided that this is possibly because violence in general is perceived as being more public than sex. You can do it in the open. Be lauded for it. Have dramatic tales told and retold.
Plus, one can fight and kill and die for noble causes, for the sake of the goal or the dream or the country. One doesn't generally have sex for a noble cause, or hear stories about brave and daring heroes who save the world through judicious use of practiced kama sutra techniques.
Although...
Well, anyway, the original question is still pretty awesome.
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