Sexual Purity Quotes
Despite the fact that there is no scientific data that even suggests that sex weakens men, the Armed Services promulgated this and other absurd and false information in order to try and minimize the amount of sex in which GIs would participate. The same myth was carried over into sports and athletics where many people still believe it.
Religious Fundamentalists had made the sale, use and/or information about contraception illegal in many states until 1963 when the Supreme Court found that a state could not jail a pharmacist for filling a prescription for a woman who would die if she became pregnant again. The contraception issue seemed settled in America but the culture wars of the late 20th century and early 21st century brought it to the forefront again. Many fundamentalists who oppose both contraception and abortion chose to concentrate only on the abortion issue as so many American women used contraception. But many of the anti abortion groups also oppose legal contraception and see it as enabling sexual promiscuity—the position that Santorum held as is illustrated by this quotation.
