The Implications of Denying Prisoners Sex

The recent talk on sex in prison was so interesting that one would not hesitate respond to it. However, it was not clear whether the liberty to sex in prisons catered for the gay views and if “services” will be providing only by a visiting spouse.

It is true that heterosexuality being natural rather than ideological (like gay talk), was automatically handed down by its designer to everyone -where lack of it led to abuses or generation of alternative ideas like homosexual and bestiality.

The evolutionary mindset of humans creates unlimited avenues for escape when besieged by challenges -unless checked by nature-fit standards required for healthy living. The unlimited mindset has wild imaginations that when mixed with electric sensations -without a thought or judgement across a wider spectrum helpful before deducting the right decision, results into weird behaviors.

At right time or phase of life, right moods and enabling environment -everyone like all animals will need to play sex. But, it is surprising to note that people will need sex even in awful environments like prison and war-stricken areas -having accepted the kind of life there and a need for security -respectively.

In most prisons, deprivation of sex is part of punishment that prisoners must face. They never focus on rehabilitation of prisoners to better citizens, but only push them to the emptiest of life. They are quickly made enemies of prison administrations and vice-versa. No wonder, prisoners -who get released turn out to be “masters and doctors of crime awarded by the prison university.”

And society forgets that given the human complexities, at one moment anyone could find himself or herself there, so we better reorganize our prison departments for the better. About human complexities, we have already noted that human imaginations can be triggered either for the betterment of the individual at one level and society at another or for the worst of them -all.

In other words, each one of us has an evil tendency struggling to take control. It is all about how we organize ourselves -including efforts of the most influential people towards shaping human imaginations and behavioral tendencies. In the same breathe, it is up to Ugandans to decide whether Barrack Obama's and his UK counterpart's gay message is best way for the country to go. Having done so, the future for the generations to come would have been made. It is as simple as that.

The existing attitude between prisoners and prison staff never ends there; permanent fear and aggression will be created -to burn-out levels for prison staff and suicide, risky escape attempts from prisons and unexplainable deaths -due to chronic stress and depression for prisoners. Does that make any one happy?

Denying prisoners the right to sex could have its own set-backs. It has already been noted that alternatives to usual heterosexuality will be created and practiced on a large scale. In fact, they could provide a new order of affairs. And because of the harsh prisoner-staff relationship, no one would expect initiatives to prevent possible spread of HIV/AIDS and have prisoners live more respectable lives as well as ensuring stress-controlled work-life for prison staff.

As part of human dignity, heterosexuality could be an underlying agenda on prison departments' internal social programs. Doing so would have interesting benefits like reduced aggression and violence, increased harmony among prisoners, ease HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, enabling rehabilitation and continuity upon getting into prison, good and rewarding prisoners-staff relationship and improved communication flow and services delivery.

Therefore, it is important that prison departments put more emphasis on rehabilitation than deliberate elimination of life -through steps like sex deprivation and enemies-and-hate labeling. Anything provided for by nature rather than human concoctions should be left to act freely -so long as it is predicted harmless to anyone. But the fact that one has gone to prison is alone mentally traumatic, why add an injury to an insult? Sex should be left as the only drug to prisoner stress and hopelessness. Those against it will realize when their time to live there comes.

Jacob Waiswa
Situation Health Analysis
www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com