June 04, 2002

Sex and Politics?

Back in the paleolithic age of weblogs, when the only "tools" we used were made of flint lovingly honed to a sharp edge, a few of us were interested in politics. One blogger decided to explore the relationship between sex and politics, all the rage in the closing days of the Clinton Administration. His opus, in four installments, was Contradiction. (One of these pieces brought me, and continues to bring me, a great deal of misdirected traffic looking for nude pictures of a misspelled Jessica "Beil.")

Suddenly, and surprisingly in light of the mores of the current administration, sex is back in politics. (Some may argue it was just a matter of time, under a leader named Bush.) And surprisingly, much of the sex talk is coming from the predominantly rightish (and predominatly post-9-11-01) war-blogger crowd.

The newbies may be forgiven for not knowing that mixing naughty naked pictures in with your politics has been done (and done better, might I add). But where is all this sexual expression coming from? Could the left be wrong? Won't the lefties be surprised to find conservatives who aren't repressed?

Posted by wasylik at June 4, 2002 09:04 PM
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