{"id":70953,"date":"2018-05-08T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70953"},"modified":"2018-05-08T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:02:03","slug":"tgc-joe-carter-the-incel-movement-and-the-repugnant-logic-of-the-sexual-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70953","title":{"rendered":"(TGC) Joe Carter&#8211;The Incel Movement and the Repugnant Logic of the Sexual Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The US Supreme Court 1965] Griswold [decision] was based on a negative right to privacy. But since then it has broadened to include new\u00a0<em>positive<\/em>\u00a0rights\u2014such as the requirement of businesses to pay for abortifacients in their health-insurance plans and to use artistic talents to serve the \u201cweddings\u201d of same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Some sexual-rights advocates,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0277539505000440\">such as bioethicist Jacob Appel<\/a>, are now claiming a right even more expansive than the right to privacy: that \u201csexual pleasure is a fundamental right.\u201d Based on this view, they argue for the inclusion of numerous new negative sexual rights, such as that women and girls have a right to sell their bodies for money.<\/p>\n<p>Yet if sexual pleasure is fundamental, what happens to those who are unable to acquire it because of a lack of money or mate? We don\u2019t deny people food or water because they can\u2019t afford it, so why would deny them the \u201cfundamental right\u201d of sex?<\/p>\n<p>The logic of sexual rights will compel, as Hanson noted, that sex may need to be redistributed using the power of the state. Hanson may be the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2018\/04\/economist-robin-hanson-might-be-americas-creepiest-professor.html\">creepiest economist in America<\/a>,\u201d but he\u2019s also able to follow the presuppositions of the sexual-rights advocates to their logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/incel-movement-repugnant-logic-sexual-revolution\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The US Supreme Court 1965] Griswold [decision] was based on a negative right to privacy. But since then it has broadened to include new\u00a0positive\u00a0rights\u2014such as the requirement of businesses to pay for abortifacients in their health-insurance plans and to use<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70953\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,175,207,168,114,117,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-philosophy","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70955,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70953\/revisions\/70955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}