Maggie's Farm

So you think that an organization that gets government money for medical ("woman's health") and pregnancy prevention counseling should be teaching how-tos for specific sexual practices? Normalizing stuff that used to be slightly edgy?

Frankly PP should get a dime of government money, and I've thought that for decades.

I don't think Powerline is getting "puritanical", that's you engaging in an adhominium attack. The position articulated in that post is one they've held as long as I've been aware of the site, and this is simply another piece of evidence that PP has an agenda that is not consistent with either conservative values or free market values.

Teaching children, especially children not legally able to consent to sex, how to engage in "kinky" activities is imprudent IF you wish those children to grow up with a healthy sense of boundaries and an understanding of reasonable sexual relationships.

What happens in "BDSM play} is a far cry from the furry handcuffs and velvet mask crap that "normal" couples might engage in to tell themselves that they are edgy and bad. "Normal" sex play doesn't involve brusies that take a week or so to heal. "Normal" sex play doesn't involve blood or needles, it doesn't leave permanent scars. Maybe the occasional hickey or bite mark.

I've known people at various depths in the BDSM scene (when you hang around Punks and Goths for 2 decades, well, there's a lot of crossover) and they aren't "normal" sexually.