Sexual Freedom

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

I think men in general have lost the right to define sexual freedom, so I won’t try to tell you what it is.

I will tell you what I think it is not.

I think it is not the right of a soccer federation president to kiss a member of the women’s team who just brought a World Cup victory to your country for the first time (the last time he’ll ever do that as an official of any sports organization).

I think it is not the right of a nation’s president to grab any woman, by any body part, ever, and in doing so over and over — and even fantasizing about his own daughter’s body parts — he richly deserved a federal judge calling him a rapist in fact and in deed.

It is not the right of an employer to pay a woman a salary different from what he would pay a man of similar qualification for the same work.

It is not the right of any politician or judge to deny women and often children access to reproductive health care and authority over their own bodies, lives, and futures.

It is not the right of anyone to decide that a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation must be regulated by historical, cultural, or Webster definitions.

It is not the right of the strong to dominate the weak.

And if you disagree, I do recognize your right to remain silent.