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Sex in the news

Tim Walz Is Staying ‘The Hell Out’ Of Your Bedroom

As we have reported plenty (see here and here) it’s anybody’s guess what could actually happen to our freedom for pornography or how we might legally express our sexual identity if either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump gets into that big white house. Critics and supporters on both sides claim to have a crystal ball for what might be coming up judging by those donating to either campaign and surely the past of both candidates.

But just recently at the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris’s Vice President running mate Tim Walz seems to have made his feelings perfectly clear about adult sexual freedoms.

Staying the hell out of your bedroom

As bluntly as he could state it, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee said to his party’s party in Chicago, "We'll build a country where the government stays the hell out of your bedroom!"

Walz also spoke about undergoing fertility treatment to conceive his daughter Hope through IVF (to be completely factual, in this interview, Walz’s wife Gwen said that she and her husband underwent Intrauterine Insemination or IUI).

“And if you've never experienced the hell that is infertility," Walz said. "I guarantee you, you know, somebody who has, and I can remember praying each night for a phone call, the pit in your stomach when the phone rang and the absolute agony when we heard the treatments hadn't worked, it took Gwen and me years, but we had access to facility treatments."

He continued with, "We also protected reproductive freedom, because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make, and even if we wouldn’t make those same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a golden rule: mind your own damn business, and that includes IVF and fertility treatments.”

Walz's record

Ultimately, we might only ever be able to make informed decisions about politicians by what they have done in the past, surely not by campaign promises or rumors. In Walz’s case:

  • When governor, he signed legislation solidifying the right to abortion and other reproductive health care into Minnesota statute. This measure made sure that the state’s existing reproductive rights protections remained in place.
  • He and democrats in his state enacted new protections for the rights of LGBTQ+ persons so they could receive gender-affirming health care. This was especially aimed at families coming from outside the state seeking treatment for trans children. Minnesota also banned “conversion therapy.”
  • As a high school teacher/football coach in rural Minnesota, Tim Walz helped his students create the school’s first Gay-Straight Alliance in the last year of the millennium.

No matter how much influence a vice president has on policy, those interested in more freedom in their bedroom and beyond might indeed be hardened by Tim Walz’s recent speech...and his record.

Ralph Greco

Ralph Greco, Jr. is an ASCAP licensed songwriter, professional playwright, the senior east coast correspondent/reviewer/interviewer for vintagerock.com, press liaison for The Erotic Heritage Museum, blogger for latex designer Dawnamatrix Designs, co-host of the podcast Licking Non-Vanilla and a professional copywriter for adult as well as mainstream clients around the world. Ralph is now the resident Staff Writer for Kinkly as well. Ralph’s short fiction (erotic and ‘straight’) poetry and essays have been published in eight...