Copyright 2001/2026, Michael Ra Bouchard, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Republished July 2, 2026,
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America's 250th birthday
* This article is 100% AI Free, written solely by the author in its entirety.
Celebrating Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
July 4, 2001
On this day 250 years ago, the Continental Congress officially voted to declare independence on July 2, 1776, when it approved the Lee Resolution severing ties with Great Britain.
While the historic decision to become independent states was made on July 2, the formal adoption of the written document explaining this decision—the Declaration of Independence—occurred two days later, on July 4, 1776.
Author's Note, July 2, 2026
Dear Fellow Americans and Fellow Global Citizens,
I originally wrote and published this short essay on life, liberty and the pursuit of sexual happiness 25 years ago in 2001, just two months before the tragic events of 9/11 were to shake America's foundation and subsequently unite us in resolve and reconsecrated American patriotism.
A lot has happened in our world since then. Including the never-ending "war on terror" that continues to grip the world's attention while costing American citizens untold billions in tax dollars and, at far greater cost, the incommensurable loss of thousands of courageous American lives in the wars which have since followed.
Regrettably, the battle is far from over.
Case in point: The American populace is presently engaged in unconventional warfare via "information warfare." For anyone interested in knowing more, I have enclosed a link to one of my long-read Free Archive articles (see Author's Note at the bottom of the page) extensively detailing the hidden present world state of affairs that may on first blush leave you understandably incredulous.
As dispiriting as all that is to contemplate today, we must never allow ourselves to succumb to despair, doom and gloom, but rather all the more determined to find and create world peace and prosperity amongst all nations and peoples.
There exists a greater purpose for us to take both individual and collective action to generate peace and harmony across the planet. And that is to create a better world that we ourselves want to live in and leave to our children and grandchildren. Surely, we cannot act otherwise.
We, and countless generations yet unborn, deserve nothing less than our mightiest efforts towards that noble end.
For if we lose freedom here in these United States, there will be no place anywhere for anyone to escape. It therefore becomes our moral and civic duty as Americans to take action that helps preserve our nation for ourselves and for future generations.
As the world's most enduring symbol of liberty, may God bless America to continue to thrive and prosper for many, many generations to come.
Happy 250th birthday, America!
MRB
* The original article as published on July 4th, 2001, now follows:
(3-4 minute quick read)
July 4, 2001
Dear Friends,
Today, on this 225th anniversary of the founding of our great country, let us be sure to take a moment and give thanks to the Founding Fathers for their courage and wisdom in declaring our nation independent. Their proclamation came at great personal cost for many of them, and for some, even death. Blessedly, this “Noble Experiment” has indeed endured the test of time, and as imperfect as democracy may be, it remains inarguably the best governing system as yet devised.
Let us remember today to honor and extend gratitude to all our fellow country men and women who’ve contributed to the creation of this magnificent country since its founding. Let us especially remember and thank the brave military men and women of our armed forces who have served and protected our country seamlessly for over two centuries.
Whenever you meet a person in uniform make an effort to acknowledge and thank them for their service and sacrifice. And let us salute and pay respects to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the values, morals, and principles for which our nation stands. Take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Our predecessors established and built this mighty nation with their vision, sacrifices, hard work, defense of and dedication to the ideals, values and way of life that we as Americans have held dear since its inception. Each generation has continued to make the American Dream possible for millions more, creating opportunity and hope for a better life for themselves and their families, through a dedicated commitment to hard work, self determination, and democratic principles.
Perhaps chief amongst these priceless principles is freedom of speech—which includes the right to freedom of sexual speech—a right which only just recently was reaffirmed through the Supreme Court’s refusal to regulate sexual content over the Internet. Even still, this important right must never be taken for granted. On the contrary, it and all our basic rights must be vigilantly safeguarded if we are to continue to have freedom of thought, expression, and self-determination, sexual or otherwise.
As insidious as external sexual repression is, with equally determined vigor we must also confront internal sexual oppression which strikes stealthily from within. It’s not always easy to recognize and identify as such, since it attacks through internalized sexual self-judgment, self-repression, guilt, and self-punishment. These are just a few of the “Trojan horse programs” running in many of us that need to be quarantined and deleted whenever they’re found. To dump these sexual self-tyrannies and reboot our sexuality demands of us to first recognize, confront, and then ruthlessly rout them out.
Sexual Rights are Human Rights
We now present the “Sexual Bill of Rights” below, which contains the "10 Basic Sexual Rights" as stated by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, California, and also includes four additional Basic Sexual Rights of our own, comprising a total of "13 Basic Sexual Rights."
Please note: Dr. Bouchard does not moralize, criticize or judge.
Nevertheless, with regards to sexual misconduct, let it be perfectly understood by everyone now reading these rights—
Any and all forms of sexual misconduct, including abuse, assault, constraint, coercion, exploitation, fraud, harassment, human trafficking, intimidation, rape, ritual abuse and violence, as well as any and all nonconsensual [involuntary] behaviors or attempted behaviors of a sexual nature perpetrated by anyone against another person—child or adult—are without exception categorically vile, unacceptable and unequivocally incompatible with the values of sexual self-determination, personal sovereignty, and individual free will expression; by its very nature, without freely given consensual agreement, any kind of unwanted and forced upon sexual contact against a person's will is always morally wrong and criminally abominable.
In plain-speak:
Sex without consent is always rape!
WITHOUT FREELY GIVEN CONSENSUAL AGREEMENT any and all forms of unwanted and forced upon sexual contact against a person's will are without exception categorically unlawful, morally loathsome and criminally prosecutable.
~Sexual Bill of Rights~
13 Basic Sexual Rights—
1. The freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy or desire.
2. The right to sexual entertainment, freely available in the market place, including sexually explicit materials dealing with the full range of sexual behavior.
3. The right not to be exposed to sexual material or behavior.
4. The right to sexual self-determination.
5. The right to seek out and engage in consensual sexual activity.
6. The right to engage in sexual acts or activities of any kind whatsoever, providing they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence, constraint, coercion or fraud.
7. The right to be free of persecution, condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention in private sexual behavior.
8. The recognition by society that every person, partnered or unpartnered, has the right to the pursuit of a satisfying consensual socio-sexual life free from political, legal or religious interference and that there need to be mechanisms in society where the opportunities of socio-sexual activities are available to the following: disabled persons; chronically ill persons; those incarcerated in prisons, hospitals or institutions; those disadvantaged because of age, lack of physical attractiveness, or lack of social skills; the poor and the lonely.
9. The basic right of all persons who are sexually dysfunctional to have available nonjudgmental sexual health care.
10. The right to control conception.
11. The right to the pursuit of sexual pleasure.
12. The basic right to seek a comprehensive sexuality education, including access to accurate and informed sexual information.
13. The right to grant, withhold or withdraw sexual consent at any time.
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Sexual Rights are Universal Rights
I encourage everyone to respect and uphold the "13 Basic Sexual Rights" in how you live your life, and urge that you not moralize, criticize or judge yourself or others. All the same, it is vitally important to remember that sexual abuse, violence, and all other sexually non-consensual actions are always in direct opposition to the values of sexual self-determination, and are therefore unacceptable under any and every circumstance.
Beginning today and henceforth, choose to affirm your sexual independence and freedom of speech by continuing to exercise your right to access and share sexuality-affirming, easily procurable, informed and accurate sexual information, media, entertainment, and frank discussion with consenting others. Do so online, in your community, and wherever else it can make a difference. You must understand—only choice that is voluntarily and individually made from informed and accurate information, and which respects one's personal beliefs and value system, is ever truly choice derived through the expression of free will.
This 4th of July holiday, celebrate your freedom by responsibly asserting your sexual independence, beginning by making a personal commitment to do whatever it takes to break free from the ties and “tyrannies of the shoulds” that continue to hold you bound. Once you do you’ll ignite a cavalcade of fireworks in honor of your personal sexual emancipation and happiness. The Founding Fathers were unequivocally emphatic about the self-evident truths they boldly proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, including that the citizens of our nation...
“…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
In their great wisdom, the Founding Fathers included the right to the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence—note that they didn’t include the right to happiness itself—just its pursuit.
For they knew full well that we each have to catch up with it ourselves!
Godspeed to you in your happiness-expanding pursuit
—both in and out of the bedroom—
and may God bless America,
Dr. Michael
Originally Published July 4, 2001
Copyright 2001/2026, Michael Ra Bouchard, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
Republished on LinkedIn July 2, 2026,
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America's 250th birthday
Author's Note:
* For anyone wanting to learn more about the high-level treachery and skulduggery being conducted worldwide by the globalist "Deep State" Death Cult—in which pedophilia is a central, elemental piece of a planet-wide scale, diabolical jigsaw puzzle course of action that replaces national sovereignty and individual freedom with a Marxist-Luciferian totalitarian "One World government"—I recommend following the link below to read my recently updated and detailed LinkedIn article on the subject:
"An Old-School Sexologist Speaks Out—
Part II: Connecting the Dots Between Pedophilia and the Globalist Deep State Death Cult"
https://lovekindly.com/Pedophilia_is_NOT_a_Sexual_Orientation.html#partII
Be forewarned that the content of the above exposé article may at times seem far-fetched and extremely hard to believe. All the same, to the best of my ability to call out evil, separate fact from fiction, and discern truth from lie, you have my word it is completely true and accurate.
To put it concisely—
Our American governance has long been overseen by organized criminals. Thousands of our elected leaders are guilty of treason. And hundreds of thousands of government employees are guilty of not defending the Constitution, with many guilty of actively subverting the Constitution and America's national security.
Accordingly, let us take inspiration in the following farsighted remarks—excerpted from a speech given by American President John F. Kennedy in 1961—as they aptly apply to our present situation in every respect:
“Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of America, cannot succeed with any lesser effort.”
In actual fact, the relevance of President Kennedy's cautionary forewarning has even greater urgency today than when first spoken by him more than a half-century ago.
To come right to the point: If you haven’t already, the time to join the fight is now!
Fate now calls upon every righteous American citizen alive to vigorously defend “the cause of America” in this literal battle for planet Earth—which by our collective action or inaction will also quite literally determine the very destiny of humanity itself.
First and foremost, by spurning any idea of ever surrendering our own God-Given Free Will, and by taking morally right action ensuring that humanity’s precious individual liberties and inviolate personal sovereignty are never swindled from us.
Aloha and A Hui Hou!
