Too Bad Sex is the Only Way to Fulfill Our Holy and Socially Useful Role as Breeders

One of the things that I just can't understand about The Conservative (i.e., a cartoonish paradigmatic representation of the average American conservative which is inevitably inaccurate, but way too accurate for comfort) is his weird-ass attitude about sex. Sex is, of course, dirty...filthy...disgusting...which is apparently why he spends so much time obsessing about it, and why it plays such a central role in his view of the world and his politics. Anyway, now it turns out that those of us who are not being reproductively correct are social free-riders.

To review:

> The real problem the planet is having is that there are not enough people using its resources.

> Sex is filthy and disgusting, but God commands you to hold your nose and do it. Think about England or whatever.

> To maintain our preposterous standard of living, we must increase our population forever and ever. This strategy is sure to succeed. What could go wrong?

> If you don't have kids, who's going to use up all that oil? You childless slackers are basically driving the executives at ExxonMobil into the poor house.

> You childless atheistic liberals make me sick.

(Note: the above is a pretty unfair caricature. The really weird thing is that it isn't entirely unfair...)