Rick Santorum's Sexual Repression Makes It Across The Pond: Guardian Article

I came across this one-liner earlier in the week, but I let the article pass. But now that ''Icky'' Ricky Santorum's idea of what sex should constitute, (lights out under the covers missionary position) has reached the notice of writer Ana Marie Cox at the Guardian, I just have to run with her article.

Birth control, Santorum argued, is "a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be".

And what a one-liner it is. Like all those other creeps out there who take an unhealthy interest in other people's sex lives, it screams 'repression' at you, and quite possibly, if there is any truth in internet rumours, lots of repressed faggery to boot. Which would go a long way in explaining Ricky's, and creep's preoccupation with all things anal.

Sex, Rick Santorum and the conservative imagination

Most politicians, like most people, don't meddle in others' sex lives because that'd be creepy. Santorum is not like most people
Ana Marie Cox
16 February 2012

. . . . . Which brings us to sex. Observing the debate (generously defined) over Obama's proposed policy – which, at this point, doesn't require religious institutions to pay for birth control, but apparently, the argument rages on! – one gets the sense that the men talking about the ideals of religious freedom, and supposed anti-religious bias, want to stick to that topic because to engage with the real-world facts about birth control would mean talking about, you know, down there. This is uncomfortable-making for politicians and voters alike.

Aside from Fox News anchors, politics is a weirdly desexualized sphere; in the public imagination, Mitt Romney's resemblance to a Ken doll probably extends further than his bland good looks. We would just as soon not think about politicians having sex. And we'd prefer that they not think about us having sex either.

Here is where I have to give Rick Santorum a perverse (indeed) sort of credit. Unlike a vast majority of those running for office, he is totally OK with going there, penis-in-various-holes-wise. I suspect that it's his apparent comfort with explicitly raising the idea of sex, as much as his out-of-kilter views on it, that rankles all but the most extreme social conservatives. To go from the hypothetical legalization of homosexual marriage to bestiality, you have to have at least given passing thought to the physical act of gay sex.

Santorum's more recent comments relating to birth control specifically betray a similar kink. Last October, he explained why he thinks contraception is "not OK" in terms far removed from the lofty constitutional arguments of the Issa panel. Birth control, Santorum argued, is "a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be". To even have that opinion, Santorum has to have given thought to which sex acts are outside "how things are supposed to be". I dare say Rick Santorum has a richer fantasy life than most. Full story with Asprin video blah blah