#title The “Left” on Sex
#author anon.
#SORTauthors anon.;
#date 1976
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/270-march-1976-2/left-sex]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2014-07-21
#notes Fifth Estate #270, March, 1976

The following are quotations from a variety of “leftist” politicians and organizations:

*** On Pre-Marital Sex and Marriage

<quote>
“Any romantic attachment that goes beyond the distance, outside the marriage bed, is actually a statutory offense, worth six months in jail for the over eager young man...”

-- from <em>Women in China</em> by Helen Snow
</quote>

<quote>
“The heart of the question that the comrades are asking is this: Is it anti-communist to have sexual relations with other than husband or wife; is it anticommunist to have sexual relations before marriage?”

-- <em>Proletariat</em>, organ of the Communist Labor Party
</quote>

*** Homosexuality

<quote>
“We would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant.”

-- Fidel Castro quoted in <em>Castro’s Cuba; Cuba’s Castro</em> by Lee Lockwood, 1969
</quote>

<quote>
“While gay people can be anti-imperialists, we feel that they cannot be Communists.”...(H)omosexuality is an ideology of the petty bourgeoisie, and must be clearly distinguished from proletarian ideology.”

-- Revolutionary Union: Position Paper on Homosexuality
</quote>

*** Masturbation

<quote>
“If a person did that (masturbates) it would be against the Revolution and he couldn’t be a Revolutionary.”

-- Paula Diaz, Cuban Centennial Youth Column leader
</quote>