{"id":22391,"date":"2015-10-20T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=22391"},"modified":"2015-10-19T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T00:10:18","slug":"sexual-freedom-for-state-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/10\/sexual-freedom-for-state-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual freedom for state control"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In a discussion of Playboy Magazine\u2019s new policy of not publishing nude pictures, Mollie Hemingway and colleague Rich Cromwell talk about the magazine\u2019s political liberalism.\u00a0 She refers to a book that argues that the seemingly opposite ideologies have libertarianism and socialism have come together in a trade-off of sexual freedom in exchange for state control of everything else.<!--more-->From Mollie Hemingway, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/10\/13\/sexytime-playboys-new-policy-of-no-nudes-is-bad-news\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sexytime: Playboy\u2019s New Policy Of No Nudes Is Bad News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>William Gairdner\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594037647?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1594037647&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=cranach-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Great Divide<\/a>\u201d argues that in modern democracies the goals of ostensible opposites\u2014libertarians and socialists\u2014have been fused together to create a regime that provides maximum freedom on the body and sexual matters in exchange for state control over the political and economic freedoms people used to hold sacred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\n\u00a0\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=cranach-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1594037647&amp;asins=1594037647&amp;linkId=WV4P5YU5OCKVUGED&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br>\n<\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion of Playboy Magazine\u2019s new policy of not publishing nude pictures, Mollie Hemingway and colleague Rich Cromwell talk about the magazine\u2019s political liberalism.\u00a0 She refers to a book that argues that the seemingly opposite ideologies have libertarianism and socialism have come together in a trade-off of sexual freedom in exchange for state control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,35,36,41],"tags":[1293,4098,2043],"class_list":["post-22391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-government","category-philosophy-2","category-politics","category-sex","tag-libertarianism","tag-sexual-freedom","tag-socialism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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