{"id":1328,"date":"2003-06-26T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/26\/the-fear-thing-and-the-sex-thing\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:36:23","slug":"the-fear-thing-and-the-sex-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/26\/the-fear-thing-and-the-sex-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fear Thing and the Sex Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14358,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/doc.weblogs.com\\\/2003\\\/06\\\/26#playingTheDoctorCard&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I almost missed <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/06\/26#playingTheDoctorCard\" title=\"Playing the doctor card\">this post from Doc Searls<\/a> musing over some of the ties between sex and politics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I just noticed something.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;Doctors, at least professionally, aren&#8217;t afraid of sex. Thanks to professional training, good doctors are fearless around the whole damn thing. It ain&#8217;t no big deal. Fucking is fine. Blowjobs are fine.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;seems to me there&#8217;s a connection between the Fear Thing and the Sex Thing.<\/p>\n<p>  Not fearing sex is great training for not fearing anything else. Including how you look and sound on TV.<\/p>\n<p>  The democrats need to be The Fuckit Party this year. They need to be straight and honest and remind Americans of what they&#8217;re giving up to the droning fearmongers who run the country right now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more there, including references to other articles that started his train of thought. Most of what caught my eye was the Doctor\/sex, fear\/comfort bit. Worth thinking about, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not fearing sex is great training for not fearing anything else. Including how you look and sound on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}