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Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? Why is it their business in any way, shape or form?

Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? Why is it their business in any way, shape or form? I'm not talking about excluded topics like CP. They are illegal and rightly so. This isn't that. This is monitoring who watches what, regardless of how this is written, and lied about to get passed.

jstarfish 3y ago
> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? You're looking at it too narrowly. Anything anyone can "take away" from you has power over you. It's a dominance play. Government controls how you engage in sex. Telcos control who you talk to. Media controls what you see and hear. Automakers control how you move. Banks control how you trade. I'm sure there are more examples (look how difficult it is to homestead anywhere), but the point is that in gatekeeping functions critical to our existence, we're always beholden to someone. Capturing two of these forms the basis of a cult. No surprise the Church used to worm its way into as much of this stack as possible; these days it's Big Tech doing the same.
Joker_vD 3y ago
> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? Or their morals? Or their property? Or their family matters? Best of the philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists had thought about that but failed to produce any comprehensible answer. It's a mystery completely out of the man's reach, apparently. On a serious note: of course they're interested in that because that's one of the most basic and fundamental parts of human society and it has always been regulated, in one way or another, in all of the societies for millennia.
- sonicanatidae 3y ago
  Yes to some, no to some. First, I'm not referring to 623 BC. I'm referring to the past decade or so, where there has been a huge spike in the government snooping on people's sex lives. The tech today, never existed before, so while I don't doubt there was maybe some sort of monitoring, historically, you can add all of it up and it still won't equate to the data gathering of today's tech. The usual for this type of control is Religion, not specifically chasing someone down who rubbed one out, to a pic of a furry.
imtringued 3y ago
They obviously want to know what their fellow politicians are watching to blackmail them.
CamperBob2 3y ago
Religious people vote religiously. That's why.
jowea 3y ago
I mean, haven't governments always taken an interest? Lots of countries had and still have sodomy laws. Polygamy has been fought for centuries in the West. And I think most Western governments have fought the church over oversight over marriage somewhere between the 18th and the 20th centuries?

jstarfish 3y ago

> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? You're looking at it too narrowly. Anything anyone can "take away" from you has power over you. It's a dominance play. Government controls how you engage in sex. Telcos control who you talk to. Media controls what you see and hear. Automakers control how you move. Banks control how you trade. I'm sure there are more examples (look how difficult it is to homestead anywhere), but the point is that in gatekeeping functions critical to our existence, we're always beholden to someone. Capturing two of these forms the basis of a cult. No surprise the Church used to worm its way into as much of this stack as possible; these days it's Big Tech doing the same.

Joker_vD 3y ago

> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens? Or their morals? Or their property? Or their family matters? Best of the philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists had thought about that but failed to produce any comprehensible answer. It's a mystery completely out of the man's reach, apparently. On a serious note: of course they're interested in that because that's one of the most basic and fundamental parts of human society and it has always been regulated, in one way or another, in all of the societies for millennia.

sonicanatidae 3y ago
Yes to some, no to some. First, I'm not referring to 623 BC. I'm referring to the past decade or so, where there has been a huge spike in the government snooping on people's sex lives. The tech today, never existed before, so while I don't doubt there was maybe some sort of monitoring, historically, you can add all of it up and it still won't equate to the data gathering of today's tech. The usual for this type of control is Religion, not specifically chasing someone down who rubbed one out, to a pic of a furry.

imtringued 3y ago

They obviously want to know what their fellow politicians are watching to blackmail them.

CamperBob2 3y ago

Religious people vote religiously. That's why.

jowea 3y ago

I mean, haven't governments always taken an interest? Lots of countries had and still have sodomy laws. Polygamy has been fought for centuries in the West. And I think most Western governments have fought the church over oversight over marriage somewhere between the 18th and the 20th centuries?