Leonard Witt: Rep. Glenn Cordelli’s sexual excitement bill defines legal vs. non-legal nipples

To The Daily Sun,

New Hampshire state Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro) is the state representative who has been reprimanded at least twice for saying sexual explicit things on the house floor. For example, “People lose their virginity when a penis goes into a vagina.” Thanks Rep. Cordelli for the brilliant insight.

The Statehouse videos of him addressing his colleagues define the word icky.

Now he has given us HB 324, a bill trying to outlaw teen “sexual excitement” in schools. Here is the bill’s exact wording, “‘Sexual excitement’ means the condition of the human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.” Who is going to check? Cordelli himself?

Cordelli and crew have become experts in legal vs illegal nipple sightings. A breastfeeding nipple, legal; nipples in a book or photograph, illegal and can get a teacher sued or fired.

Except for that breastfeeding nipple, no nudity allowed. Every private part has to be covered or blacked out, including “the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.” In other words, no boners allowed even in someone's pants.

Making teachers responsible for stopping teen sexual excitement is like asking them to stop a volcano before it erupts. It is time for the New Hampshire Republican legislators to worry less about teen boys’ erections and non-breastfeeding nipples and start addressing issues like housing and our property taxes which are “in a discernibly turgid state.”

If GOP legislators pass the bill, we hope that Gov. Kelly Ayotte will veto it, thus taking the sexual excitement out of Cordelli’s hands.

Leonard Witt

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