While I know I’ve been complaining for years about the prohibition of drunken sex, there is now a new wrinkle.
People with Alzheimer’s Disease are now being treated like people on alcohol or drugs.
Meaning (of course) that no sex is allowed:
The nursing home staff caring for Rayhons’ wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, told the former Iowa lawmaker that his wife of seven years was no longer mentally capable of legally consenting to have sex. Prosecutors say that Rayhons did not get the message. Today, he is preparing to stand trial for sexually assaulting his wife, who died last August, days before he was formally charged.
Which is fascinating in itself, because unlike being intoxicated, having Alzheimer’s is a permanent condition. I’ve long been annoyed by the idea that an adult does not have the right to decide to get drunk and have sex, but this ratchets the notion up a quantum leap further.
Naturally, the people who push this moralistic crap are liberals who accuse Republicans of being uptight about sex and of waging “war” on women.
I’m not saying that there aren’t religious nutjobs on the right who are uptight about consensual sex. God knows I’ve ridiculed them for years. But they have no monopoly.
Thanks to the left, fewer people than ever before have the right to consent to sex.
What scares me is the loss of personal automony. It is not up to an adult citizen to decide whether or when to have sex.
Rather, it is up to some panel of activists to decide for you that not only do you not have the right to decide to get drunk and have sex, but that if you develop Alzheimer’s disease, you have no right to have sex at all.
This used to be a free country.
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3 responses to “Old people having sex! God(dess[es]) forbid!”
Is the real issue here the Alzheimer’s, or just that it’s wrinkly old people having sex? Yuck. The dominant culture, obsessed with youth and celebrity and raised on Hollywood and porn is repulsed by the mental image of less than perfect bodies going at it.
That is just plain sick. My mother had Alzheimers, late-middle stage (she died of cancer, not Alzheimers), and she may not have known who she was or where she was half the time, but she very much DID know what she did and didn’t want. Had my father been capable of having sex with her then (that’s a whole other story), I’m QUITE sure I would have known if she had objected.
Sounds like the jury found him not guilty. Sounds like there was some friction between the husband and the wife’s children (second marriage late in life for both), the care facility, and the prosecutor jumped in hoping to make a name for himself. Cheers –
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/health/iowa-man-found-not-guilty-of-sexually-abusing-wife-with-alzheimers.html?_r=0