USAID, Ideological Imperialism and the Sexual State, by Jennifer Roback Morse

The recent freeze on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) expenditures has brought attention to that agency’s unaccountability and waste. But the problems with USAID run deeper than merely wasting taxpayer dollars or being opaque about its activities.

Despite funding some worthwhile recipients, USAID has been systematically exporting the sexual revolution to countries that do not want it. Contrary to popular opinion, the sexual revolution is not the result of spontaneous cultural movements or impersonal historical forces. Much of the sexual revolution has been invented, bought and paid for by governments at the behest of sexual radicals who do not represent anyone but themselves. It is bad enough when Western radicals manipulate the governments of their own countries. It is outrageous when they inflict ideological imperialism on poorer countries that actively dislike the toxic sexual culture of the United States. …

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