tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385675070003697250.post1102582008497194310..comments2024-03-23T23:01:32.356-04:00Comments on Truth & Beauty: Nice Guys Get Hard TooUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385675070003697250.post-54966483938493588282010-10-19T13:15:02.872-04:002010-10-19T13:15:02.872-04:00I can only speculate about why people deride sex t...I can only speculate about why people deride sex the way they do, but whatever started it, I think a large contributing factor is that it is so ingrained in our culture. People grow up and are raised to react to sex in a specific manner. There are arguments against sex, and it doesn't really matter if they're valid or not, because what counts is people believe them, and they pass them on to the next generation. It's a paradigm that needs to be shattered. We could change it all with better education, but people are so tied to their beliefs, they can't (they won't!) understand the possibility that they may be wrong.<br /><br />And there may also be that other factor, that sex just isn't that important to other people. It's like with nudism, perhaps most people would be okay with nudism if it were more ingrained in the culture, but how many of them have that special drive, that affinity for it, that causes them to pursue a nudist lifestyle even in a society that is largely critical of such a lifestyle? But even so, even if the majority are against us, I think it's unfair, even downright irresponsible, for them to force their beliefs on the minority.<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, it was a good one. By the way, are you related to Taylor by any chance? ;-)zharthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09995423745639356980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6385675070003697250.post-33749971353518669982010-10-19T09:41:24.262-04:002010-10-19T09:41:24.262-04:00Erm... this is Satanic Thoreau btw.
I concur. My ...Erm... this is Satanic Thoreau btw.<br /><br />I concur. My whole life, I've never understood how sex could be considered bad and dirty and evil. It has always filled me with such ineffable wonder, warmth, and joy. It is love, pure and simple. It may or may not be synonymous with what we call agape, but it's at least akin to love of a great film or love of a sunny day. It's a positive emotion. Period. That's the end. There's no way around that fact. If you want to bring other things into it -- rape, hatred, control -- then you're adding something to it which is not innate. <br /><br />I'm certainly not breaking any new ground here but I just can't wrap my head around how we arrived upon the belief that a positive emotion of sensuality is automatically equated with an ACT -- when a thought and an action are not the same -- and what's more, it's an evil act. It's as though if you admit to being proud of your oratory skills, that means you're seeking to lead an insurrection and install yourself as supreme ruler. A great orator may have ambitions towards leadership, but insurrection is no more an effect of oratory than sexual misconduct is an effect of feeling that warm bit of positive energy we call attraction. Sex is a force for good in this world, yet we stifle it in favor of negative emotions which are 'proper.'<br /><br />*sigh* I try not to buy into the pro-sex concept that the normals are just stifling it because it is too pwoerful and they are afraid of their own emotions -- because I worry, what if it's just me, not them, that feels so strongly about sex? I've only ever been inside one man's mind. But when the evidence stacks up, it becomes increasingly difficult for me to play devil's advocate against myself in this matter.Tenzin Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05925867097747621833noreply@blogger.com