ABSTRACT
The policies speak starkly about their evident aims, for state support for abortion, birth control, and same-sex marriage all act against the reproductive aspect of sexual intercourse. The new secular state, because of its policies that promote non- reproductive sexual activities, takes its stance in immediate opposition to religious tradition; it also relies on a suite of reproductive and medical technologies that are applied in defiance of what scientific studies imply about their consequences. Support medical research to provide medicines that can relive such diseases. The final social consequence of state policies regarding sex and reproduction is to alleviate the guilt that often accompanies sexual activity. Reflecting on Plato and Freud may seem an arcane conclusion to exploring the topic of the power of the secular state in relation to sex; nonetheless reflecting on the two greatest psychologists in Western intellectual history is a good place to end.
