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Donegan: American right abandons sexual prohibition for male domination

Conservative embrace of raunch culture represents a shift from decades of sexual prohibition toward subordinating women, argues Guardian columnist.

newest coverage 54m agosummary written 1d ago6 pieces72 likes & upvotes1 comments NewswiresMastodonReddit

What to know

  • Conservative politics has historically opposed sexual expression; Donegan argues this has reversed toward embracing raunch culture and sexual entitlement.
  • The shift represents not a contradiction but a unified strategy: both prohibition and raunch function to subordinate women.
  • Examples cited span from FBI policy to influencer content to Trump circle associations with figures accused of sexual exploitation.
  • The change inverts decades of liberal leadership on abortion access, birth control, and the sexual revolution.
some voices

Both sexual prohibition and raunch culture function as tools for male control over women's sexuality.

  • “Sexual prohibition and sexual force are two styles of a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women.”

    amydiehl@mstdn.social · Mastodon ↗

“Conservatives long promoted a politics of sexual prohibition. Now such morals have been shed in favor of male domination.”

Moira Donegan, Guardian columnist · Guardian ↗

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Donegan: American right abandons sexual prohibition for male domination
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    Mastodon commenter frames sexual prohibition and raunch as unified subordination strategy

    Social media user amydiehl interprets Donegan's argument, arguing that both sexual prohibition and raunch culture function as complementary tools serving the same purpose of using sex to subordinate women.

    “Sexual prohibition and sexual force are two styles of a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women.”
    — amydiehl@mstdn.social
    • amydiehl@mstdn.social

      The right wants to make casual, premarital, non-procreative sex as risky as possible--for women. But they also embrace the raunch. Sexual prohibition and sexual force are two styles of a single project: the use of sex to subordinate women. @ moiradonegan https://www. theguardian.com/commentisfree/ 2026/sep/24/women-conservatives-male-domination

      amydiehl@mstdn.socialMastodon3d ago34▲view on Mastodon ↗
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    • This line of thinking really worries me, and I generally am pretty supportive of the left. People on the left can be quick to ostracize and cancel people before they have all the facts, and that can be quite harmful. One example of that is false accusations of rape on college campuses. "Believe all women" kind of falls flat when the woman retracts…

      technicallynotlyingr/politics54m agoview on r/politics ↗

    • The politics were of sexual secrecy while projecting chastity/piousness: unfettered, coerced access for the men, subjugation and rape for the women and children. And threats to anyone who dare speak up. Not a lot has changed in some communities.

      Un1CornTowelr/politics1d agoview on r/politics ↗
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    Donegan argues right has pivoted from sexual prohibition to raunch as subordination tool

    Guardian opinion columnist Moira Donegan publishes analysis contending that American conservatism has shifted from its Reagan-era emphasis on sexual prohibition toward embracing raunch culture, pornographic aesthetics, and sexual entitlement as mechanisms for male domination of women.

    “Raunch, vulgarity, a boorish entitlement to women's sexual service, and the aesthetics – and, indeed, the business – of pornography are being embraced by the right.”
    — Moira Donegan
    1. 2 outlets In its push to subordinate women, the American right is embracing raunch

      first by Mastodon, 3d ago · also Guardian US

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