Sexuality has always existed, but the almost obsessive compulsive study of it is quite new. Growing up today one would think that sexual identity and politics are inherently interlinked, that in order to be truly sexual, one most also be labeled politically correct or normative. However, as is often the case, history tells us quite a different story. Even the terms "homosexual" and "heterosexual" were invented by a journalist during the nineteenth century, a little over 200 years ago. But these sexual acts always existed in our society. It was not until the age of social Darwinism that terms like "heterosexual" began to be used to identify "normative" sexual behavior. This is why it does not surprise me all that much when comedians like Dave Chappelle are congratulated for picking on transgender people, nor does it surprise me when conservative talking heads like Charlie Kirk try to terrify you about the supposed scourge of "sexual anarchy" that is overtaking the nation. While this argument is often written off as the "lunatic fringe" in liberal circles, we must remember that conservatism is not a fringe movement, but an expression of traditional values. So, in order to understand the threat that conservatism presents to us today, we must understand the conservative traditions that we are expected to adhere to and where they originated. The usage of the word "anarchy" when it comes to sexuality implies that there is a "normal" sexuality and that all other forms of sexuality are abnormal. Once you have defined a behavior as abnormal it becomes increasingly easier to criminalize and punish said behavior. This is how the politicization of human sexuality works in intellectual circles. In politics if something is considered bad, it can be legislated with the will of the people, regardless of what science may suggest; we need only look to the criminalization of cannabis to confirm this political reality. Sexual acts are not immune to this effect. These arguments, which state that all things that are not heterosexual are either laughable or dangerous, are deeply ingrained in American cultural ideology. America has still not come to terms, in fact it has made the potentially devastating error of refusing to even recognize, the fact that eugenics was just as, if not more, popular in America than it was in Germany. Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, and Adolf Eichmann used social Darwinism and eugenics to choose their victims for the holocaust, but they obtained these widely popular ideas from American intellectuals and their British forefathers. We need only take a look at the Eugenics Archive to confirm the aforementioned statement, "One of the consistent facets of eugenics over time and place has been an interest in regulating sexual behavior, sexual orientation, and gender expression. Indeed, this one area in which the insidious quest or normalization associated with eugenics movement is very evident. A quick review of the earliest cases of institutional sterilization in Indiana, which passed the world's first sterilization law in 1907, confirms this. Sodomy, which most likely encompassed a wide variety of male same-sex interactions, was the infraction listed for approximately a third of male inmates...at the Jeffersonville Reformatory for vasectomy in the early 1900s. More generally, a concern with sexual deviance permeated eugenics movements across the globe, even as some variants embraced a more progressive 'free love' approach to female sexuality and reproduction. In some cases this focus translated into attempts to control female sexuality to meet the demands of hetero-normative procreation and family formation. For example, many women who were institutionalized or sterilized under eugenic commitment laws were classified as loose, promiscuous, or somehow sexually delinquent." This argument, which seeks to humiliate, demonize, incarcerate, and sterilize those who experiment sexually is a direct threat to our liberties.