Project 2025 Wants to Regulate Your Sexual Activity

While fighting over the Epstein list, Republicans remain much more interested in YOUR bedroom

Project 2025, aka the Trump Manifesto, wants to strip you of your contraception options. It’s fair to say that it even wants to put a halt to recreational sex.

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On page 484 of the document,¹ which I refer to as The Trump Manifesto, the manifesto authors express alarm at contraception in general, and urge its banishment from Obamacare:

The contraceptive mandate issued under Obamacare has been the source of years of egregious attacks on many Americans’ religious and moral beliefs…

ACOG [American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists] has abused its position to attack HHS’s [Health and Human Services] allowance of religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate.

On page 485, the document also declares opposition to men’s contraception:

“Eliminate men’s preventive services from the women’s preventive services mandate.

…HRSA should not incorporate exclusively male contraceptive methods into guidelines that specify they encompass only women’s services.”

The document claims that offering male condoms does not apply to women’s health.

I’m curious to know what the ladies think of that.

On that same page, the document uses a fancy word I’ve never seen to declare its opposition to the morning-after pill: abortifacient.

Luckily, my second-grade teacher taught me how to read from context, so I figured out what it means, but I ran a quick Webster’s check to confirm:

Screenshot from Webster’s dictionary

Far-right Christo-Nationalists are so thorough with their propaganda that morning-after pills are often called abortion pills by the press, rather than contraception medication.

The idea here is that somehow, this is a creature with a soul:

Public Domain Image

But this is not:

Photo by T.R Photography 📸 on Unsplash; cropped by author

The writers of the Trump Manifesto are alarmed that the morning-after pill is an option for some women. There’s been a lot of talk during Mad Clown 2.0 that they’d go after medicines like mifepristone. There’s a reason for this: They’ve stated it as part of their agenda in the Trump Manifesto. But they want to take it a step further, and ban contraception, too, one Christo-nationalist step at a time:

Eliminate the week-after-pill from the contraceptive mandate as a potential abortifacient.

One of the emergency contraceptives covered under the HRSA preventive services guidelines is Ella (ulipristal acetate). Like its close cousin, the abortion pill mifepristone, Ella is a progesterone blocker and can prevent a recently fertilized embryo from implanting in a woman’s uterus. HRSA should eliminate this potential abortifacient from the contraceptive mandate.

I don’t know how most Republicans are expected to cope with that kind of world if the writers get their way. I doubt there is a Republican within 100 miles of Washington D.C. not engaging in illicit sex while they scream at you about what you’re up to in your bedroom.

The reason MAGA is engaged in a civil war over the Epstein files and tapes is that half of them were directly involved with Epstein, and half were not. I don’t have a source for this, but it’s easy enough to see who has something to hide by reading their stances on the whole ugly affair (assuming you can sort through their lies and hypocrisies).

By now, most of you are aware that the Trump Manifesto was authored by the Christo-nationalist Heritage Foundation. If you have any doubt about their long-term intent, check out one of their Apartheid Twitter posts:

Click the image to view the video on Apartheid Twitter

In the video, a woman with an English accent and a striking intellectual resemblance to The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aunt Lydia is claiming that birth control pills make women bipolar.

As if that’s not bad enough, the Heritage Foundation goes on to say in the Tweet’s introductory text:

Conservatives have to lead the way in restoring sex to its true purpose, & ending recreational sex & senseless use of birth control pills.

I’m going to repeat that for you in case you are using an audio reader:

When you hear people say that contraception is the next thing Christo-Nationalists will target in the wake of the Dodd ruling that blew apart Roe v Wade, there’s a reason for it: It’s right there in the manifesto.

The Trump Manifesto is littered with references to casual or “risky” sex. It’s as if the Matt Gaetzes of the world don’t exist.

Base image by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Meme text added by author

For example, on page 490:

In dealing with sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, the OASH [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health] should focus on root-cause analysis with a focus on strengthening marriage and sexual risk avoidance.

Strangely, but unsurprisingly, when the kind of “risky sex” that hurts women is considered, it is considered within the context of abortion.

When the very nasty Larry Nassar, the gymnastics coach who abused countless underage gymnasts,² is discussed, the manifesto’s attention is not on his victims, but on abortion:

“OCR [Office of Civil Rights] should also coordinate with the Department of Education on a public education and civil rights enforcement campaign to ensure that female college athletes who become pregnant are no longer pressured to obtain abortions.”

You would think that if the manifesto’s writers are worried about non-existent programs to pressure young female athletes to have abortions (this is a myth, but let’s pretend it isn’t for the sake of argument), they’d support programs that help prevent teen pregnancies.

This is not the case. In 2017, the Trump administration slashed funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which contributed $89 million a year for pregnancy prevention programs. The cash, which originated under the Obama administration, was meant to be distributed to 81 organizations.

The cuts came after demonstrable improvements in the rate of teen pregnancies were ushered forth through the program. The cuts became a template for how Mad Clown 2.0 would handle existing programs that they don’t like but are mandated by law.

From an NBC News report:³

“I’ve worked at the Health Department for 10 years, and I’ve worked in international health for 20 years prior, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Rebecca Dineen, Baltimore’s Assistant Commissioner for Maternal and Child Health, which benefits from the grants. “It really was just this notification that your funds are ending.”

The agency has since been gutted as part of the draconian and unconstitutional OMB (Office of Management and Budget) budget cuts⁴ that have cut funding that was previously appropriated by Congress.

The program was begun in 2010 and extended in 2015 for another five years. The Trump administration simply ended it in 2017 by cutting off its funds.

Few enough objections were raised that, upon arrival, Mad Clown 2.0 realized it could take a chainsaw to every government agency.

The fact that these funds were appropriated by Congress is acknowledged by the very people who violated the Constitution and cut the funding. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services points out existing appropriations on its own website:⁵

Screenshot from https://sam.gov/fal/1a8f3c3e29594de3afb6be575221ae6b/view

But it’s all frozen now.

Under Mad Clown 2.0, what’s left of the bureaucracy is littered with manifesto enforcers determined to redirect funding away from sexual health programs towards “faith-based” programs promoting the Christo-nationalist agenda of the Trump Manifesto.

The federal bureaucracy’s various websites are filling up with Christo-Nationalist propaganda like this from the HHS:

HHS expects Teen Pregnancy Program grantees to cease using content that is not in compliance with this policy and President Trump’s Executive Orders currently in force, including:

• Executive Order 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government

• Executive Order 14190 Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

• Executive Order 14187 Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation

• Executive Order 14151 Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

• Executive Order 14173 Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity

This article doesn’t even touch on the subject of LGBTQ+ rights in the bedroom. That topic alone, with the manifesto’s countless references to sexual preferences and gender choice, would require multiple essays that others have written with better authority than I can muster.

The manifesto isn’t satisfied with trying to legislate sex. They want you to stop thinking about it, too.

The Project 2025 document addresses pornography in its introduction on Page 4:

It has no claim to First Amendment protection.

Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.

I don’t like pornography, either. I haven’t checked it out since I was a kid peeking at the Playboy magazines my dad hid under his pillow (I have no idea why I was looking under his pillow — I must have somehow known something fun was under it).

Check that. I accompanied my college buddies to the University Center at my public university to watch “Deep Throat.” Yes, my public university’s University Center did a showing of “Deep Throat.” It was the 1970s. Things were different in those days.

But mostly, I just find it kind of stupid and pointless. Nothing about it turns me on. But it’s a judgment call. Putting all the people involved in the industry in prison would fill up a lot of prisons. MAGA would probably make a much larger majority of porn producers joining the newly incarcerated population than any other demographic group.

I don’t know enough about the industry to offer further opinions about it, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to learn that it’s often exploitative.

So is restaurant work.

However, I’m not here to argue about the merits, or otherwise, of pornography. If they’re claiming pornography is not protected by the First Amendment, fine. Let’s go there. Neither is racism, which is much more damaging.

Question to Christo-nationalists: Still want to have that discussion?

Thanks for reading!

Portions of this article are from a previously written article appearing on Medium.

Footnotes

1. (PDF) https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Nassar

3. Chuck, Elizabeth. 2017. “Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Funding to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs.” NBC News. August 25, 2017. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-abruptly-cuts-funding-teen-pregnancy-prevention-programs-n795321.

4. Never forget who is currently the director of the OMB: Russell Vought, editor in chief of Project 2025

5. “SAM.gov.” 2025. Sam.gov. 2025. https://sam.gov/fal/1a8f3c3e29594de3afb6be575221ae6b/view.