The woman at right is Maggie Gallagher. She serves as the president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, a group that lobbies on marriage law issues.

You may know her as the woman who took tens of thousands of dollars from the Bush administration in return for her support of the ridiculous “healthy marriage” initiative.

This past week, however, she made herself Internet famous for another reason: Gallagher hates anal sex. With a passion. Here’s what she had to say on the subject.

Anal sex is painful, unsanitary, unsatisfying for women, and creates unique risks for serious physical diseases (if you doubt me, go read the Wikipedia entry on the subject) because the anus is not designed for sexual intercourse, increasing the risk of torn flesh and the intermingling of bodily fluids — blood, semen, fecal matter — that can spread an astonishing variety of diseases. The female partner is far more at risk than the man in these encounters. This should be a feminist issue.

Sounds to me like Mrs. Gallagher (if she’s even actually married, which has been disputed in the past) has had some bad run-ins with elephant peckers.