SEX-N- PRISON

by Achim Rodgers

It is nonsense to believe that once a psychosexually mature individual is incarcerated, he or she becomes nonsexual. Sex-N-Prison is a critical issue. Studies have shown that years of depriving prisoners of intimacy with their biological counterpart perverts their sexuality and contributes to their ill health and higher level of violence, ultimately becoming a societal problem when they are released. This barbarous unnecessary deprivation of the humanity of prisoners results in (1) increased violence and perversion, (2) rapes, (3) promotion of homosexuality, and (4) sexual abuse of women and a dysfunctional sex life when free.

Many would say, "You should have thought of that before you committed a crime." The macho prisoners would add, "You're weak if you allow something like that to bother you." We know all too well the results of the draconian suppression of instincts and feelings that produces this kind of pseudo-machismo. Denying human beings the right to engage in sexual intimacy with their biological counterpart is the equivalent of rape, the rape of an individual's humanity. We must grow up, drop our shame, and admit that human sexuality is a major factor in our lives and not some nonessential extracurricular activity. This ring of silence hurts, dehumanizes, and causes grievous harm to all, including society.

This is a call for a legislative Bill of Human Rights creating Conjugal Visits for ALL prisoners.

Working to bring justice to the unjustly imprisoned. Working to bring justice to the unjustly imprisoned. Write Achim Rodgers, 49983, P.O. Box 4000-R, Box 703, Fort Grant, AZ 85644-4000.

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