On FOSTA, SESTA, And The Return Of The Puritanical American Dream

Or…on can’t we trust Americans to not fuck the fuck if it doesn’t fucking feel right?

The United States Senate’s recent passing of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) is the first step towards allowing the United States Government to censor American citizens willfully wanting to engage in healthy behavior that combats frustration, isolation and a sense of failure from doing so. Plus, it denies a stronger awareness of the positive and psychologically beneficial relationship between our physical selves and our best and unique identities as human beings. In conflating ideas of illegal sex with those regarding healthful, yet possibly immoral sex, we see the beginnings of what could be an America at its crossroads concerning attempting to reaffirm the country’s connection to its Puritanical Christian roots.

As my mother told me as a God-loving Roman Catholic youth, “Go outside and meet some people because reading too much of that Goddamned Bible might make you crazy…” Or, maybe it’s better to quote iconic, iconoclastic, and sexually…