So Mike Huckabee grabbed headlines yesterday by directly stating that women who use contraception are sluts.

If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.

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Anyway, enough of trying to address all the tap-dancing conservatives are doing. It’s clear that they both want to say that women who have non-procreative sex are Terrible Sluts but do not want to admit that’s what they’re saying, because they also understand that they’re characterizing pretty much all adult women as Terrible Sluts. They should not be indulged in this desire. On the contrary! Huckabee himself said this: “Let us take that discussion all across America because women are far more than the Democrats have played them to be.” The discussion being, by his own measure, “Do we believe American women are wonderful people or do we believe they have out-of-control libidos?” I agree! This is a helpful conversation. I have long believed we need to lay it out on the table and stop dithering about red herrings like fetal life and “religious freedom” to impose your faith on your employees. We need to just have this discussion about sex and women and whether or not American women are having “too much” sex and whether or not “too much” sex means you don’t deserve to be treated with respect.

However, I have one major problem with it. It seems the terms are ill-defined. We are a nation of quantifiers. When we say we control our eating or drinking, we mean we drink no more than X number of drinks or eat no more than X number of calories. We need to apply the same standard to the issue of “controlling their libidos”. Huckabee says he wants to have a discussion about whether or not women are in control or whether they need to be treated like a bunch of worthless slags. Okay. But we need to know: How do you tell a controlled libido from an uncontrolled one? We need to define our terms.

So I think the time has come. Huckabee said we need to have the discussion. The crowd fucking loved it. So here’s questions reporters need to start asking Republicans:

How do we know if a woman is controlling her libido? Huckabee said it was when she didn’t need to use contraception, but what’s your definition?
Gary Bauer called Sandra Fluke a “promiscuous coed”. What makes someone “promiscuous”? How many sexual encounters before they cross the line from not-promiscuous to promiscuous?
If women who can’t control their libidos are not respectable and the definition of not controlling your libido is using contraception, is that a lifetime thing? If a married woman has had all the children she wants to have, does she need to prove she can control her libido by never having sex with her husband again?
Rush Limbaugh claimed Sandra Fluke is “having so much sex” that her parents should be embarrassed. How much sex is it before it becomes embarrassing? Is there a lifetime cap on sexual encounters before you’re an embarrassment, or is it more a yearly thing? Does having sex 10 times a year make you an embarrassment? Or is it more like having sex even once makes you an embarrassment?
Huckabee said a woman should be insulted by the suggestion that she needs contraception, because that indicates she cannot control her libido. Is contraception the only thing women should be insulted by? Should women also be insulted by the suggestion that they enjoy sex? Is the female orgasm an insulting concept?
Most importantly: What is it about having sex that is so terrible that women should be insulted at the suggestion that they have it, or have it “too much”, as defined by you?

There’s a lot of great questions that can be asked now that Huckabee has demanded a nationwide dialogue about women’s sexual habits and whether or not they are degraded by sex and should be insulted at the very idea that they would do such a thing as have sex for fun instead of making babies. So yes, let’s have that conversation. I think we should start today.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/24/time-to-start-asking-republicans-directly-how-much-sex-is-too-much-sex/