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Freedom For Bathhouses? Really?

 Well, I guess at least Minneapolis can say ICE stopped killing people long enough for their politicians to return to being utterly frivolous. A Councilman Chavez—fine, I think his name was Jason, leave me alone—wants us to apologize for our “bigoted” past in shutting down bathhouses in the early years of the AIDS crisis. OK, Camera 3.

Pick 1: Either Reagan was insensitive for ignoring a disease that especially ravaged the homosexual community; or 2. We naively pretend that the whole disease and countless others—I’m sorry, “infection”—hit all of us equally. A digression, before I continue: I’m actually glad we were at least a little naive and sentimental about it, because it did kill a lot of people who were conventional but “sexually prolific.”

Anyway, public health can’t afford to be politically correct, man. A doctor should be able to say, “I am not the Inquisition or the police, but this is risky behavior, and if you want to live longer, think about not doing it.”

And listen, I am square and judgy enough to tell men who like women not to stick their penises in anuses, too.

And if you want to know, I don’t think we should legalize prostitution everywhere. I’m sorry; “sex work.” Why? Because just like gambling, bad stuff happens wherever it’s around. I loved Pretty Woman, too. But that’s a movie, right? Like, not real. And let me be precise: when you legalize something, you get more of it. Why? Because a plurality of people are bloody stupid. Everyone thinks they are smart and capable of making the wise decision all the time, but it’s not true. The shaping function of law is for stupid people, who would have no functioning morality at all, were it not handed to them.

Culture, mores, and laws are distinct, but interrelated. They just are. And if you’re asking me, I am natively much more inclined to believe we forgot wisdom in the past, rather than transcended our “bigoted” ancestors. (OK, bigotry did still definitely happen.) 

Sidebar: If I am being honest, I would rather have my bloody soda (with public money) than bathhouses. Funny that: it takes one of Donald Trump’s idiot lackeys—still a Democrat, by the way—for liberals to complain about the “nanny state.” Even so, I would still rather live in my nanny state than yours. 

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