PHOTO: (click on photo to enlarge) BusinessWeek's Feb. 6-12, 2012 cover illustration depicted two doggy-style humping airplanes with the caption, "Let's Get It On" (left). The negative reaction from disgusted readers was printed in the reader's letters section of BusinessWeek, Feb. 20 - Feb. 26, 2012, p. 6. The readers who were disgusted by the cover probably had a homophobia panic attack when they saw the article in the next issue by Barrett W. Sheridan, "In Politics, Google Is a Weapon," BusinessWeek Feb. 27 - Mar. 4, 2012, p. 42 posted February 23, 2012 (right) that featured the sex advice columnist Dan Savage and his spreadingsantorum.com Website he created to stifle Santorum's political career. BusinessWeek appears to be thumbing its nose at their offended readers. Either that or they have a subversive graphic artist on their staff and the editors are clueless about what he is doing.
Eight years before this BusinessWeek article was published, I wrote about Dan Savage's Google Bomb spreadingsantorum.com in an article published online by gay pioneer Jack Nichols Website: Thomas Kraemer, "51 Gay Bashing Speeches at the Republican Convention," GayToday.com posted September 13, 2004
Other people have tried to the same thing for different politicians, but only Dan Savage's Santorum meme has gone so viral that even the mainstream press has had to mention "Santorum's Google problem" as being relevant to his run for President of the United States. Of course, I am sure that not all the press is feeling forced to report it because it appears some editors are having fun with by writing double entendre headlines such as, "Santorum comes from behind in three-way."
It is amazing how references to sodomy and the possible disgusting side-effects are no longer the "unmentionable sin" of preachers just a few decades ago. Only a few years ago, anybody merely mentioning such a disgusting thing, even in an oblique and discrete manner, would have been censored by the mainstream press, much less given prominent coverage by a mainstream business magazine that is read by every CEO and conservative Wall Street investor. Of course, society hasn't yet moved beyond gay sex being mentioned as anything other than as a joke, but this slight shift is a sign that gay liberation and the sexual revolution of the 1960's has had a positive effect on society, even though gay sex has not quite yet been normalized in society.
