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The Conservative Obsession With Sex

They can’t stop thinking about it

John Egelkrout
6 min readJul 29, 2022
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Is it just me, or do conservatives spend a lot of time and energy talking about sex?

There is no question about it. Conservatives have an obsession with sex. It’s not that they aren’t concerned about other things too. They are. They spend a good amount of time whining about how much they pay in taxes, how much money government regulations are costing them, how “reverse discrimination” is being used against them, and how God needs to be brought back into schools. They will demand people stand at sporting events when the national anthem is played (while they sneak away for a beer) and argue how guns don’t kill people. They think poor people are lazy. If you don’t believe me, just ask them.

Some of them are still waiting for QAnon to appear.

But sex is what they like to talk about the most. As a matter of fact, a good amount of their legislation, both passed and proposed, has some kind of connection to sex, and a large part of their party’s platform involves sex in one way or another.

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John Egelkrout
John Egelkrout

Written by John Egelkrout

I am a sanity-curious former teacher who writes about politics, social issues, memoirs, and a variety of other topics. You can also follow me on Substack.

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