How Adults-Only Libertarianism Hurt Dawn Stefanowicz

How Adults-Only Libertarianism Hurt Dawn Stefanowicz

B.P. Terpstra


Another underreported story: Dawn Stefanowicz grew up in a home where the sexual desires of adults were put ahead of her needs and well-being. Today she fights for traditional marriage and a child?s right to a mother and father.The media have been good at hiding her life experiences:For children such as myself, just because our parents are ?partnered,? doesn?t mean they are monogamous. Monogamy in the gay community means ?serial monogamy,? you have a single partner for several months and then move on, or you?re in a relationship but have multiple partners on the side. Research shows that most male homosexual relationships become open within the first year. A recent New York Times article confirmed this?50 percent of same-sex male ?marriages? become open to other sexual partners within the first year. My father could be in a ?committed,? long-term relationship, but there was an agreement with his partner that there would be sexual relationships with others.When I was growing up, I wasn?t surrounded by average heterosexual couples. In my home there would be my father?s partners and male friends, and they would often take me along to meeting places in the GLBT community. I was just a child, but I was exposed to overt sexual activity. When I was about nine, for example, my father took me to a downtown sex shop. He said he wanted to expose me to sexuality so that I wouldn?t be prudish. There was no sense of privacy around sexuality. Sex was very public; that was part of the gay culture.He?d take me to see the work of gay artists, whose paintings and sculptures seemed to have phallic symbols worked into their art. He?d take me to nude beaches where gay men met one another. He wanted me to take my clothes off too, but I wouldn?t. It was at such places that men were involved in ?cruising,? propositioning one another for sex. There were areas nearby you would go to for sex. There was a network; if the police were coming, they?d tip one another off and they?d stop their sexual activity. This was before the Internet age, but there was still an incredible network that the gay community used to inform one another about their meeting places where they could go for a?quickie.? They could be public beaches, gyms, or even parks where children were playing nearby. My father would go cruising at locations all over Canada. He also loved coming to the States; his favorite cities included San Francisco, Miami, and Ft. Lauderdale. You could cruise, find someone in a few minutes, and go someplace to have sex.My father also kept an apartment near his downtown office where he could meet someone for quick sex.Once, when I was in the 10th grade, I was excited because my father came to school to watch me perform in the band. He never did before. I saw his eyes bug out when he saw all the teenage boys performing on the stage with me. Then I realized that he was not there for me, but to pick up young men.She concludes: I was born under the GLBT umbrella. I didn?t choose that. Coming out from under has been lonely. But doing so has given me a freedom and a happiness that I want to share with others.

Source: http://weekendlibertarian.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-adults-only-libertarianism-hurt.html

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