Footnote 24: 'Hetero-Sex isn't natural'

With many pressing issues at-hand, Berlin-based Tageszeitung just published an op-ed announcing the coming crusade against families, childrens' (mental) health, and unapologetic hedonism and narcicism

As a weekend special, here’s another footnote about our current times. I found this ‘gem’ in the Berlin-based Tageszeitung (taz), and while I do think the piecee kinda speaks for itself, I’d like to highlight one crucial aspect here (and two more comments below the translated piece; links omitted):

When reading the below (junk), please consider the following: yes, the ‘woke’ lunacy has a firm grip on the minds of the inner-city dwelling and holier-than-thou crown of latte-drinking do-gooders. Therefore, the below piece may also be seen as an indicator of US ‘soft power’.

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Captions reads: ‘Sex with consequences: Heterosex [intercourse between a man and woman] is not natural’

‘Our author has sex with cis men only from time to time, but the biological facts also prove her right: heterosex is very tricky’

Caption below the [imho odd] picture reads: ‘I don’t have anything against heteros [meant is heterosexual individuals], but…’

I have nothing against straight people. I have heterosexual friend, too.. Sometimes I even sleep with cis men myself. Everyone should have sex how and with whom they want. But I still have to say something: heterosexuality is simply not natural. I’m not making it up, these are the biological facts. Sperm and vaginal fluids have completely different PH values. The vagina has an acidic environment to ward off pathogens while alkaline semen raise that PH level, at least for a short time. Therefore, the vaginal environ becomes less acidic and pathogens can spread more easily. Many people with vaginas therefore get fungal infections from unprotected sexual intercourse with penises.

Another classic: cystitis. In people without a penis, the path between the bladder and the urine outlet is not far. Also, anus, vagina, and urine outlets are also inconveniently close to each other. The mechanical in-out movement that is part of sex for most straight people transports intestinal bacteria into the urethra. Many of my straight friends get bladder infections all the time after penetrative sex.

I was spared [bladder infections] for a long time, only when I started dating a cis man did I understand what they [the author’s straight friends] meant. You have to go to the loo all the time, peeing causes a burning sensation, and abdominal cramps have kept me up through nights. Nasty business. When things go bad, the only thing that helps are antibiotics, which are prescription drugs. This means regularly sitting for hours in a crowded gynaecologist’s waiting room with said symptoms. Therefore, straight women have to decide whether to have sex or a life. Antibiotics, on the other hand, kill the good lactic acid bacteria in the vagina, thus the next fungal infection is just around the corner.

While STDs like chlamydia or gonorrhoea can be transmitted through all kinds of sex practices, but penis-vagina penetration carries a higher risk than, say, licking or fingering. Where healthcare is lacking, one of the biggest risks of heterosex is still: getting pregnant. 295,000 women died in pregnancy or childbirth worldwide in 2017.

I often wonder what nature was thinking. But because, as I said, I am in favour of everyone being able to have sex as they wish, we as a society should do at least two things: redistribute the medical costs that women in particular incur from heterosex. For example, through a sex levy on straight men. We also need to reduce the risk for everyone involved. For that, we need more research on diseases that affect female bodies. And above all: the fruits of this research must be distributed fairly worldwide.

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So, here’s a couple of things as in ‘food for though’(apart from simply asking ‘really?’ in stunned disbelief):

I’m old enough to remember the transition from second- to third-wave feminism, and one of the key approaches to identify ‘disciminatory’ behaviour, in particular (hate) speech, was the notion of ‘discursive substitution’, i.e., simply replace the subject with ‘women’ or ‘female’ to figure out whether or not something was disciminatory. When reading the above op-ed, I though: now, let’s replace ‘heterosex’ and ‘straight’ with ‘same-sex intercourse’ and ‘homosexual’ to see if the author takes offence. If she (I presume) does, we’d have our answer, won’t we?

Notice, furthermore, the conflation of virtue-signalling with respect to what kind of relationship (and intercourse) people are supposed to find ‘normal’ with issues of pregnancy, childbearing, and international development. I almost fell off my chair when I read this piece for I vividly remembered from when we lived in Switzerland (where all health insurance, while government-mandated, must be acquired from the private insurance industry) an insurance broker told us, uncomfortably chuckling, that the company he represented ‘doesn’t consider pregnancy an illness’. And that was pre-Covid, mind you, so, while I don’t live in Switzerland anymore and therefore don’t know about that particular sales pitch right now, I shall ask my Swiss friends about that.

Finally, as regards the (mainly hypocritial) hyperventilatory virtue-signalling of the above piece in terms of ‘soft power’, we may now turn to the oh-so-2020 thing also known as ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests that laid waste to many US cities and quickly spread ‘worldwide’. That is, at least according to the below item that appeared on NBC News:

Note the highlighted inclusion of places in the Global South, incl. China, for the occasional solidarity protest.

Speaking of ‘soft power’, I also remembered also an image someone posted over on Guano Island, which aggregatd all announced BLM protests, which appears a wee bit more more representative of US influence across ‘the collective West’:

Finally, these two visualisations reminded me of something else (yep, ‘international sanctions on Russia’ would that topic be) that I saw more recently. Also, do you notice something about these maps?

As always, I won’t link to Guano Island, but I think we may now engage in a wonderful and far-reaching discussion about virtue-signalling, US ‘soft power’, and the failure of legacy media and politicians to provide context.

You’re welcome, and have a great day.