{"id":1078,"date":"2012-04-29T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:58:44","slug":"2012-04-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-04-29\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religious Right\u2019s War on Sex\u2014and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">Dr. Marty Klein<\/font><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><font color=\"black\">April 29, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"Dr. Marty Klein\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/web-2012-05-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/web-2012-05-29.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/web-2012-05-29-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/web-2012-05-29-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/web-2012-05-29-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 85vw, 397px\" \/>\u00a0 Sex and religion are constantly in the news this election year\u2014typically in ways quite aggravating to humanists. With razor-sharp wit and 30 years of clinical experience, <strong>Dr. Marty Klein<\/strong> will analyze the news, describing what he calls America\u2019s War On Sex (www.WarOnSex.com). \u201cThe Religious Right is using the issue of sexual regulation to undermine secular democracy,\u201d he says. \u201cIts War On Sex uses phony categories, dangerism, and a broad Sexual Disaster Industry. It is successfully re-conceptualizing private sexual expression into public behavior, which is therefore subject to public control.\u201d The subject of sexuality is currently missing from much of humanist thought. But a humanist approach to sexuality, says Dr. Klein, would address people\u2019s fear of their own\u2013and others\u2019\u2013sexuality without supporting their ignorance, superstition, narrow categories, and anxiety about not being \u201cnormal.\u201d What a great way to attract people to humanism, he says\u2014and what a great way to make supernatural religion obsolete. Dr. Marty Klein is a Palo Alto-based psychotherapist, sex therapist, and international lecturer in sexuality and public policy. He has been an expert witness or invited plaintiff in many important state and federal obscenity and anti-censorship cases. His landmark book <em>America\u2019s War On Sex,<\/em> with a foreword by the ACLU\u2019s Nadine Strossen, was honored as Book of the Year by AASECT, and will be re-released on April 30. Join us for a creative, thought-provoking, and entertaining talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marty Klein April 29, 2012 \u00a0 Sex and religion are constantly in the news this election year\u2014typically in ways quite aggravating to humanists. With razor-sharp wit and 30 years of clinical experience, Dr. Marty Klein will analyze the news, describing what he calls America\u2019s War On Sex (www.WarOnSex.com). \u201cThe Religious Right is using the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-04-29\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Religious Right\u2019s War on Sex\u2014and Democracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}