Joycelyn Elders Is Coming To Coralville Tonight To Give An Oral Presentation

From the University of Iowa:

M. Joycelyn Elders, former surgeon general under the Clinton administration, will provide the keynote address, “Healthcare in the 21st Century,” at the Woodrow Morris Lectureship, Nov. 9, from 7:30-9 p.m., in the Coralville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center.

Elders’ address will examine the lack of health care accessibility in the United States, the burden placed on society by unhealthy behaviors, and strategies our country must devise to make America’s health status fit our health care expenditure.

While Elders was in favor of socialized medicine, she was also in favor studying the idea of legalizing some drugs as a way of reducing crime. Even the Clinton Administration freaked out at such a notion.

The most controversy, if you want to call it that, was when:

In 1994, she was invited to speak at a United Nations conference on AIDS. She was asked whether it would be appropriate to promote masturbation as a means of preventing young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity, and she replied, "I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught." This remark caused great controversy, especially among conservative Christian groups and right wing interests in the United States. President Clinton asked for her resignation.

Elders also came up with this great quote:

"We know that more than 70-80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie."

Surprisingly, the opinion Elders had concerning abortion didn't get her in any hot water with Democrats. Check out these quotes:

"The number of Down’s Syndrome infants in Washington state in 1976 was 64% lower than it would have been without legal abortion."

And

"We must stop this love affair with the fetus."

Killing fetuses was perfectly OK, especially Down's Syndrome children, but advocating masturbation got her canned by President Clinton. So weird.

I wonder if Elders knows that her fellow Democrats in Iowa supported a 25% additional tax on dildos and vibrators a couple of years ago. The bill eventually went limp. Maybe with a majority Democrat legislature they can get that up again.

Speaking of majorities, some US Senate Democrats proposed a 25% internet porn tax in the summer of 2005. Maybe that will be hot on their legislative agenda for 2007.

Finally, you can still buy Iowa-raised-but-currently-deceased porn star Anna Malle's vibrating pussy and anus. I checked it out. No, I didn't check out the vibrating pussy and anus, I just made sure it was still being sold.