For awhile in the Mere O Writers Room we had a quote from one of our members pinned as the channel topic: “It’s hard to transgress liberalism with strippers.” It’s a memorable way of making an important point: Once you adopt a certain understanding of the human body and sexuality, then you have given up all possible grounds for objecting to the various perversions regarding the human person and human community that are baked into contemporary liberalism—the commodification of the person (see: “sex work”), the isolation of the person from their people (see: pornography and, in a different way, the isolation from life inherent in rampant contraceptive use), the turning out of the person into a heartless world in which they must narrate their own identity (see: sexting).
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