{"id":11,"date":"2005-12-19T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/ethics-in-washington-maiming-vs-massaging\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:05:18","slug":"ethics-in-washington-maiming-vs-massaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/ethics-in-washington-maiming-vs-massaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in Washington: Maiming vs. Massaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Congress are pushing to make handjobs a federal crime. Well, not all of &#8217;em &#8211; just the paid variety.\u00a0(Dinners, or even multiple happy hour drinks, \u00a0are still apparently legal tender for such barter).\u00a0 Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) is pushing legislation to provide federal grants to state and local law enforcement to target men who visit massage parlors and get excessive massaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Cornyn has been one of the biggest apologists for the Bush administration&#8217;s torture polices.\u00a0\u00a0In June 2004, he condemned\u00a0 the efforts\u00a0of Democratic senators&#8217; criticism of\u00a0Bush torture policies as\u00a0 &#8220;not only false\u2014they dangerously undermine troop morale, put our troops at risk, and impede our efforts to win the global war against terrorism.&#8221; Cornyn has heaped scorn on anyone who favored limiting the power of US interrogators.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn apparently believes that federal agents are entitled to maim and brutalize and\u00a0perhaps kill people while torturing them &#8211; but that private citizens should not be allowed to contract for any gratification\u00a0much above a foot rub. \u00a0The government&#8217;s right to inflict pain is absolute, while citizens&#8217; right to pursue pleasure is dependent on the latest whims of their rulers.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps in the interest of consistency, Cornyn should add an exemption for his proposed crackdown, specifying that paying for\u00a0sex is OK as long as people are only beating or flogging one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Congress are pushing to make handjobs a federal crime. 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