On July 28, Democracy Forward, on behalf of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for attacking Title X funding applications. It comes as the Department for Health and Human Services, or HHS, announced that as of 2027, Title X funding would favor fertility tracking over contraceptives, counsel patients about “marriage prior to childbearing,” respect “biological reality” around sex and gender, and a slew of other funding considerations that undermine Title X’s science-backed mandate to provide accessible reproductive healthcare.

The language deployed by the HHS reflects a new wave of anti-abortion rhetoric that converges with the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, camp to increasingly demonize hormonal birth control and reproductive healthcare as “unnatural” and a symbol of moral bankruptcy. As Planned Parenthood is in its fifth year of Title X’s five-year funding cycle, the funding shift puts millions of Americans at risk.

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    If you can convince young men not to masturbate, you can convince them to do anything. That’s why masturbation is looked down upon by society at large, to control them as you said.

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      US has a long history in this back to the Puritans. Even food like Corn flakes and Graham crackers were created to discourage masturbation.

      In media, children can watch horrific violence easily, but a single nipple could shut down a studio.

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        Well, I’ll never look at Frosted Flakes the same way again.

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          Frosted Flakes inspire lust because they look like bukkake cereal. Regular cornflakes keep the demons in check.