08-28-2006, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-28-2006, 09:32 PM by LemmingofGlory.)
Quote:I find the permission to engage in consensual, homosexual or heterosexual, sex in prison to be inconsistent with the concept of punishment. Given the segregation by gender that is encoded by law, providing condoms means condoning sex in prison, and infers chronically unfair treatment of heterosexual prisoners: no sex for them, unless they submit to being ass raped.
Your argument is that you would discriminate in favor of homosexual prisoners? Nice. Why not ask institutional discrimination, condoned by the state, in more ways, eh? Drop all pretense, and advocate separate but equal, back of the bus, and Jim Crow laws while you are at it.
I think most of us here are annoyed (or at least mystified) that CA is dealing with the side effects of prison sex (and drug use) instead of dealing with the problems themselves. Folks bringing in matters like "state sanctioned ass rape" and "discrimination against heterosexual prisoners", quite frankly, gets away from the fact that this is really, really #$%&ty problem-solving. That's really the main issue here, and by getting riled about prison sex and "discrimination", you're doing the same thing CA is doing: you're not looking the problem in the face.
In sum: if you'd just cut out the machismo "OMFG PRISON ASSRAPE!" bull#$%&, you'd see the situation isn't nearly as complicated as some of you are making it. That doesn't mean there's a simple or easy solution, but the problem itself is trivial to identify.
-Lem