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From the pandemic to porn, here's how norms around sex are shifting for Gen Z (Tonya Mosley; Fresh Air podcast)
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, the ruling didn't just eliminate the federal right to abortion; it also ushered in "a generational change in the way that people approach sex," journalist Carter Sherman says.
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian where she's covered the real-world results of abortion bans, access to healthcare for trans people, and how technology is reshaping our view of our bodies and our choices. In her new book, The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over its Future, Sherman writes that Gen Z — which the Pew Research Center defines as people born between 1997 and 2012 — are having less sex than previous generations.
Sherman conducted more than 100 interviews with teenagers, young adults and experts for the book. She says the decline of interest in sex goes beyond the issue of abortion rights.
"We have the rise of the internet, smartphones, social media, porn. We have Me Too, we have the pandemic," she says. "Oftentimes, we think about sex as a thing that happens between two or more people in a bedroom. But in reality, the terms of our sex lives are often set for us in schools and school boards and courtrooms and legislatures in Congress and in the White House."
Sherman notes that during the pandemic, many sex education classes were conducted over Zoom or eliminated completely: "The emerging studies that we have on this topic show that teachers became very nervous, that parents would hear what was going on and that they would object to it," Sherman says. "And indeed, it is true that parents got incredibly incensed over sex ed over the course of the pandemic. And we really see that take shape after the pandemic."
Sherman says that much of the sex ed that now exists in American public schools focuses on abstinence only, rather than offering a more comprehensive take on issues of consent and sexual health. But, she adds, "I don't think you can really roll back the clock at all given the technological inventions that we've seen since the 1950s, birth control, the internet, women's rights in many ways. ... Instead, I really hope that people can look ahead towards the future and see what it is that we're living in now, as opposed to trying to do what I call sexual conservatism."
Interview:
Sunday, June 23, 2024
In Trump we trust: religious right on crusade to make their man president
With Trump running ahead of Biden in many swing state polls, religious right voters scent a historic opportunity to impose a radical agenda that could ban abortion nationwide, curb LGBTQ+ rights and blur the separation of church and state. At Friday's conference, speaker after speaker framed it as righteous crusade and the only way to resist a tide of liberal secularism sweeping America…
Monday, April 8, 2024
Bodies Under Siege (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)
Abortion is in the news this week. FFRF attorneys analyze oral arguments in the mifepristone (abortion pill) case before the Supreme Court that was taken by religious-right groups. Then, we speak with U.K. journalist Siân Norris about her book Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
The Orange Wave: A History of the Religious Right Since 1960 (Bradley Onishi; Orange Wave podcast)
The Religious Right has not always existed. White evangelicals have not always been the guardians of far-right immigration policies and patriarchal models of the family. In the 19th century, they were often progressive activists fighting for labor rights, abolition, and women’s suffrage. How did they transform into the scions of Christian nationalism? Brad digs in to the history with Professor Randall Balmer of Dartmouth College on the initial episode of The Orange Wave: A History of the Religious Right Since 1960.
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
‘Warped history’: how the US supreme court justified gutting gay rights | US supreme court | The Guardian
Tragically, the religious right knows it has a friendly audience in the six conservative Catholic justices on the supreme court, who have been partners in shaking the foundations of fundamental rights. The justices' new standard is whether a constitutional right is grounded in "history and tradition", the latest byword for the bogus doctrine of "originalism". So they need some history, and apparently any history will do.
The legal end to reach a thunderous ruling justifies their debatable means. So the concept of "religious autonomy", built on a foundation of misleading scholarship, "impact" litigation and, above all, false history, has become the method for restricting rights. Its logic of power rests on its illogic; its warping of the constitution depends on the distortion of history…
Monday, July 10, 2023
US religious right at center of anti-LGBTQ+ message pushed around the world
The spread across the world illustrates how America's evangelical and Catholic right has globalized over the past 15 years by helping establish a vast web of anti-LGBTQ+ zealots who share ideas, messaging and funding...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Pro-choice Catholics fight to seize the narrative from the religious right
"Catholic teaching supports and respects religious pluralism. And what rightwing Catholics are trying to do is have their theological ideas codified into civil law. By doing that, they're infringing on the religious freedom of everyone else. Our religious freedom guarantees not only our right to practice our beliefs, but our right to be free of the beliefs of others and so abortion bans and restrictions take away religious freedom," she said...
Thursday, March 2, 2023
James M. Kauffman: On being right for the wrong reasons - Freethought Today
"The Religious Right has tried to co-opt education, and many of its tenets are outrageous and in need of forceful rejection. Among its most malodorous features are its homophobic, anti-Darwinian, anti-mental health and social-emotional learning, book bans, topic prohibitions, and anti-mask and anti-vaccination sentiments and proclamations. "
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Friend of Satan: how Lucien Greaves and his Satanic Temple are fighting the religious right
Once someone determines they want to undergo the abortion ritual, the Satanic Temple believes that the state has no right to intervene in what is essentially a religious practice.
"States are passing laws premised on this idea that foetal tissue has personhood, or is a unique and distinct human life. We don't agree with that position. We believe it's a religious position, and we don't believe states have any right to put any impositions on us," Greaves says...
Friday, November 18, 2022
A new documentary exposes the truth about the religious right - The Washington Post
In supporting Trump, Falwell and the religious right got exactly what they had spent two generations working for. Trump gave them three new Supreme Court justices willing to ignore popular opinion, throw out precedent and overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed a right to an abortion. Today's Supreme Court is their court...
Saturday, September 24, 2022
The American right’s future involves waging a 'religious battle' against the left, leaders say at a conservative conference
National conservatism is far from the mainline conservative ideology espoused in Washington, D.C., and on the campaign trail, but it is ascending within the GOP. But rather than celebrating their momentum, these conservatives raised concern over the sense that their views are underrepresented not only in elected government, but across the federal bureaucracy, in corporate boardrooms, on major online platforms and in the military. Meanwhile, the broader American left was repeatedly denounced as the "enemy" and a "regime" with "evil" ideas.
"I firmly believe that we American Christians — and in truth, Americans of any traditional faith and convictions — that we're now living in exile," right-wing writer Rod Dreher said in his address, adding, "We don't know how much time we have before the persecution starts. But we can be confident that it is likely to come."…
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
…Opposition to abortion, therefore, was a godsend for leaders of the Religious Right because it allowed them to distract attention from the real genesis of their movement: defense of racial segregation in evangelical institutions. With a cunning diversion, they were able to conjure righteous fury against legalized abortion and thereby lend a veneer of respectability to their political activism…
Saturday, January 16, 2021
US set for flurry of ‘Christian nationalist’ bills advanced by religious right | Christianity | The Guardian
Legislation that would erode LGBTQ and reproductive rights expected to be introduced in states across America, experts warn...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Cartoon: A flock of fanatics
And at least 3 of these are Catholic.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/29/1981639/-Cartoon-A-flock-of-fanatics
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/29/1981639/-Cartoon-A-flock-of-fanatics
Friday, July 10, 2020
Supreme Court expands religious rights with trio of rulings | TheHill
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Trump administration's expansion of ObamaCare birth control exemptions for employers, marking the third time in about a week that the court has issued decisions broadening religious rights.
Two of the three cases were decided Wednesday by a 7-2 margin. Those majorities included two liberal justices — one of whom was nominated by former President Obama — as well as the court’s ideological center, Chief Justice John Roberts, suggesting religious protections enjoy durable support on the bench.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/506486-supreme-court-expands-religious-rights-with-trio-of-rulings
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/506486-supreme-court-expands-religious-rights-with-trio-of-rulings
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Evangelicals are naked before the world - The Washington Post: Opinion
The religious right seems doomed to ride a receding cultural wave, and it is lashing out as a result.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelicals-are-naked-before-the-world/2019/06/27/463e87b4-991a-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelicals-are-naked-before-the-world/2019/06/27/463e87b4-991a-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html
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