If the prompt in a free association exercise were the above passage, from the draft of a proposed bill in the Oklahoma legislature, I think my response would be "Taliban."
Don't think I've ever before crossed ways with the phrase "recreational sexualization," but the author, sensing perplexity, helpfully clarifies: "any form of non-procreative sex." Maybe "recreational sexualization" was deployed because it sounds worse than "recreational sex"—which, admittedly, sounds pretty bad.
I'm not sure, however, that "any form of non-procreative sex" is as clarifying as the bill's author thinks. For example, for purposes of the law, is a 60-year-old woman having sex "the old-fashioned way" in the same classification as yucky gay and transsexual doings? The procreative status is equivalent in each instance. At least the school library won't have anything in it of interest to a confused, searching kid. The inventory shall consist only of official information approved by the state legislature.
They claim to favor "limited government."
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