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8. Raised German Catholic
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 10:07 PM
Feb 2014

You can count me in the group who experienced the outcomes of extreme religiosity.
Whatever. We are all the victims of our own childhoods.
What you suppose (religion suppressing masturbation) has already happened many times over. There were bizarre harnesses into which religious parents put boys so as to keep them from masturbating. I was among millions, if not billions, of Catholic boys whose parents taught that masturbation and erotic thoughts were sinful. No one ever mentioned abortion to me when I was a teen. It was all about keeping your hands off yourself and saying Hail Mary's when you thought of a girl.
Regardless, the way religion has abused any group is unrelated to my argument. The OP's outrage is based on a false equivalency. That's my stance, and, so far, it seems to hold up pretty well.
The OP would do better to stick to the fundamental right to control ones own body and that restrictions on contraceptive access and abortion services infringes upon that fundamental right.
The argument that antiabortion folks are hypocrites because men can get treatment for sexual dysfunction, even if the argument is incorrect, is kind of amusing to people advocating for reproductive freedoms because of the cause/effect relationship between sex and pregnancy, but no one truly believes the Hypocritical Viagra Muncher is an argument that will change the mind of a person who is anti-abortion.

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False equivalency Android3.14 Feb 2014 #1
Interesting that insurance companies NEVER covered birth control until eridani Feb 2014 #2
The attempts to restrict abortion are heavily based in religion. boston bean Feb 2014 #3
Not what I meant Android3.14 Feb 2014 #4
That was the point. There is no religious oppostion to ED treatments. boston bean Feb 2014 #5
But it isn't a point Android3.14 Feb 2014 #6
Because it exists for one biological sex and not the other is fair game, and a fair equivalency. boston bean Feb 2014 #7
Raised German Catholic Android3.14 Feb 2014 #8
What you are not understanding is that by rigidly controlling women's reproductive rights, Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #10
Part of your statement is true, but not the part that would weaken my argument. Android3.14 Feb 2014 #11
So you you're just here for a laugh? JTFrog Feb 2014 #12
Three people have tried to explain where you are wrong, and yet you still don't get it. Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #13
Unamused Android3.14 Feb 2014 #14
Your words: Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #15
And if I'd said Android3.14 Feb 2014 #16
i guess my argument would be more in tuned to.... viagra and pumps more for medical conditions seabeyond Feb 2014 #17
At last, I see something relevant: Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #18
Isn't that the 4th law of posting? JTFrog Feb 2014 #19
lol redqueen Feb 2014 #20
adn i didnt even read his posts but THIS... says who he is and what the fuck his agenda is. seabeyond Feb 2014 #22
you know what. if i am getting what you are saying, i am so damn tired of it. we have one, seabeyond Feb 2014 #21
Yep. Somehow the whole no sex unless it's for procreation rule is just ignored... but redqueen Feb 2014 #9
at least huskster acknowledge the female libido. i give him a huge ass thumbs up for that one. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #23
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