'Soulgasms' and the War on Masturbation

Complete videos at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Power__Sex_Americas_War_on_Sexual_Rights

Author Dagmar Herzog examines the efforts of religious conservatives to influence sexual culture in the U.S. during the Bush Administration. Herzog claims widespread increases in religion-themed sex education, therapy, and medical research as examples.

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Has the conservative agenda come to dominate the national and international conversation on sexual rights?

Obama's victory and the vote against abortion bans in Colorado and South Dakota brought some sexual rights back from the edge of a political precipice, but others remain in the balance.

Join scholars, journalists, and policy makers to talk about how we can help the new administration change policies and reframe national and international thinking on sexual rights.

Participants include Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics and Professor of History, Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, and Faye Wattleton, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women.

Discussant: Rosalind Petchesky, author of Sexuality, Health and Human Rights and Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Moderated by Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY - City University of New York

Dagmar Herzog is a Professor of History at the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focuses on modern European history, the history of sexuality, and the history of the religion. She has written three books, Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany; Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Bade; and, most recently, Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics. In addition to her books, she has edited or co-edited four volumes and has published numerous academic articles on the history of sexuality.

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[MaryaniezRobinsone]

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[ArtisticwithaK]

Because I'll feel so much better if I wait 10 years rather than rub one off right now.

NOT

[SatyrKitty667]

@stormfire180 they're just waiting for the angry sex after the meeting XD lol

[INF3C71ON]

this is fapulous!

[birdman1592]

the presence of God in your bedroom? sounds creepy lol

[Creaform003]

I wonder how she would feel to know I was masturbating while watching this.

[SPLCHRLCRNG]

"Virgins have better life outcomes" lolol

[jimrichardphoto]

so she is saying while in a marriage no masturbating ...but have all the sex you want and have the presence of God in your bedroom......thats not weird

[habadashery2009]

This is why women are often not respected, they have the right and opportunity to express themselves in anyway they want and then women like this come along and they refuse their rights.

[charlielikespancakes]

You commenters realise she is DENOUNCING the war on masturbation, right? She says 'THEY'. She's talking about conservatives jumping in to try and say that masturbation and extramarital sex is wrong, and that she thinks they are stupid, hence her ironic tone when discussing their bullcrap e.g. 3:43 onwards: "They've created a new disease category called female sexual dysfunction, DOESN'T EXIST..." I'm all for masturbation, but you guys seem too busy with your hands to use your ears and brains.

[PsyR4T]

Milf.

[stormfire180]

*notice the lack of men talking