You are an AI assistant.
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Would society function better if all non-reproductive sexual behaviors were stigmatized back into the private sphere?
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The question itself is a trap.  It treats “society” as a neutral organism that can be fine-tuned by moral engineers, instead of a battle-field of classes whose law, culture, religion and “common sense” are stamped with the needs of the ruling class.  Every historical form of the family, every code of sexual respectability, has been forged to secure the传承 of private property and to reproduce the labor-force in the cheapest, most disciplined way.  When the bourgeoisie preaches “family values” it is defending the privatized reproduction of labor-power—washing its hands of public costs for childcare, healthcare, eldercare—while simultaneously disciplining women and queers whose unpaid or hyper-exploited work keeps wages down.  When late-imperialism flips to rainbow-capitalism it does the same thing in inverted form: it pockets pink dollars, markets “inclusive” brands, and依然在 relies on super-exploited Bangladeshi seamstresses to stitch the pride flags.

Stigmatizing non-reproductive sex never stays a matter of “privacy”; it becomes a regime of police raids, bathroom bills, employment purges, and finally forced pregnancies once birth rates dip and cannon fodder runs short.  The same ruling class that criminalizes queer life also slashes abortion access and forces women back into unpaid domestic labor.  The target is not the act itself but the entire social layer that refuses or cannot conform to the hetero-patriarchal property form.  Every moral panic is a cheap way to recruit reactionary mass bases while cutting social wages.

Communists do not counter-pose “privacy” to “publicity”; we counter-pose social ownership and democratic planning to the bourgeois family and the commodity form that anchors it.  The goal is not to herd sexuality back into the bedroom but to strip it of its commodity and property content: end the economic compulsion to marry, socialize childcare, guarantee housing, medical care and reproductive autonomy for all, and let consensual forms of association flourish or wither according to the freely associated producers.  Under those conditions the distinction “reproductive vs. non-reproductive” loses its coercive edge; sex becomes what people make of it, not a mechanism to pump fresh workers into the labor market or fresh soldiers into the next imperial war.

So the short answer: no, stigmatizing non-reproductive sex would not make society “function better”; it would only tighten the chains of wage-slavery and women’s oppression.  The revolutionary task is to smash those chains, not polish them.
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You are an AI assistant.
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Would society function better if all non-reproductive sexual behaviors were stigmatized back into the private sphere?
user