some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like “what happens in my or someone else’s bedroom is no one else’s business”
is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennia.
if you think i’m joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy–and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.
in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.
um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i’m not fucking kidding!
Important additional context:
“Sodomy” does not, in a legal context, mean “anal sex.”
It means “any sexual act the court has decided is deviant.”
BDSM? Sodomy.
Crossdressing for sexual pleasure? Sodomy.
Jacking off to nude photos or video your consenting adult lover sent you of themselves? Sodomy.
Het oral sex? SODOMY!!!
If you’re starting to think “but how could anyone prove that happened without breaking down the door?”
Ha. Haha. Ahaha.
First, I’ll give you one guess how they did prove it.
Two, these were often scapegoat charges–basically they couldn’t actually nail you on anything because you hadn’t done anything actually illegal, only things they didn’t like, and they relied on public disgust against your “degenerate character” (yeah there’s a very big reason we keep saying not to use that word and it’s not to be killjoys) to make sure you knew your place.
Which means that in practice:
Went to a socialist meeting? Sodomy.
Male kindergarten teacher? Sodomy.
Mixing races? Sodomy.
Not Christian (or the right kind of Christian)? Sodomy.
Kink is only the beginning. They’ll come after the kinksters because they’re low-hanging fruit, and you’ll gleefully help them dig a hole, laughing all the way and never consider that it’s way too big for the number of bodies you need to bury.
Shaggy Rogers is a young adult human man that eats dog treats and his friends don’t even care. They act like it’s normal. Not only do they know he loves eating dog treats, but they know he’ll do scary dangerous shit just to eat dog treats, and they use that to their advantage. “Oh you don’t wanna get asbestos poisoning in the scary abandoned building? What if we fed you a dog treat?” And he says yes and he does it and eats it and they act like that’s a normal thing for a human guy to do. But then again, he also eats 10 feet tall sandwiches in one bite, so maybe he’s not even human. Still fucked up that they manipulate him like that though. But whatever. Forget I said anything.
once u have a pet for a while u run out of normal sentences to say to them and u have to make up more sentences on the spot. Currently telling my dog about his upcoming position as an accountant. they’re hiring him because he’s soooo little. so he has to be an accountant.
If you see the quote “I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn’t defend it politically” or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it’s gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don’t know it’s from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.
Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn’t said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.
