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Title: Gasmasks & Pantyhose
Author: Workers Solidarity Movement
Date: 1994
Language: en
Topics: United Kingdom, sex, sexuality, Workers Solidarity
Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws94/ws42_shag.html
Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 42 — Summer 1994.

Workers Solidarity Movement

Gasmasks & Pantyhose

THE ‘BACK TO BASICS’ propaganda campaign has been undermined because the

Tories failed to meet their own moral standards. In condemning the Tory

party we must be careful not to take on their morality. There’s nothing

wrong with shagging. No one should expect human sexual behaviour to be

expressed in only one way. It’s strange that while we accept diversity

in tastes in food, music, book, films when it comes to sex we talk of

rights, wrongs and norms.

Heterosexual penetrative sex in the missionary position is assumed to be

the norm. Yet, who would ever assume that most normal people eat meat

and two veg every day of their lives? Who would think it was peculiar to

consume and enjoy curry or chilli or potato soup. While variety is

accepted and unquestioned in every other one of our senses, our sexual

behaviour is regulated by culturally (and sometimes legally) enforced

rules. Rules so deeply embedded in society we often aren’t even aware of

their existence.

The problem with the Tory party is not that they have extra marital

affairs or that some of them enjoy cross dressing. Sure they are guilty

of hypocrisy and often of lying to their friends and family. However the

trouble with criticising these things, is that given that their morality

is the dominant one in society it can look as we support their basic

viewpoint. It can seem that we would accept the Tories if only they’d be

more honest in bed.

Capitalism attempts to limit our sexuality in order to keep us in line.

Most obviously they’ve targeted gays and women. If only for our only

personal well being, we should be aware of how these factors operate

upon us and how they curb the range of experiences available to us.

However a far greater crime of the Tory party in Britain and of the

ruling class world wide is the way it keeps us the working class in

either poverty or wage slavery. Once their economic system tumbles down,

their rotten and weirdly restrictive morality will crumble with it. And

then we will really start to have fun.