So, let me first get the "closet" part over with... I'm Bisexual. I lust after women, but am opportunistic about men. I consider Try-sexual to be a good , underutilised descriptor.
Whew!
Our culture is sick.
We don't say a word to our kids about anything sexual till they're 20, if at all, then condemn them for finding out on their own. The Church forbids priests an approved outlet for what is ,arguably, God's greatest gift, and then wonders why they resort to sordid sex with minors. We rain down judgement on masturbation, and sex education, and nudity, and premarital sex; mystify and cloud the whole subject, then wonder why we have rapists and pdophiles and all the other sexual predatory behaviour.
A 4000 year old book of unknown authorship makes vague allusions to various sexual practices and we base our law, mores, and post-enlightenment social constructs on it.
Sex is, biologically, the "Prime Directive". It is a part of being Human. To deny our own Nature is to invite disaster and hysteria.
The Right (again, with them...) has driven us back to the bad old days. Ignorance, fear and hatred rule the day.Their own fear and guilt are projected onto society as a whole and God help those who don't subscribe to their narrow world view.
Gay marriage will, somehow, in their eyes, lead to pedophilia and bestiality and the demise of marriage, itself.(!) Their methods of repression and enforced ignorance sure seem to be working on those fronts.Look around. Perhaps it's time we tried another approach.
Perhaps we should educate kids, whenever they become interested, about the facts of life...
That masturbation is safe sex and a good way to get to know about one's body..That sex can lead to pregnancy and STD's and that there are ways to prevent both of these.That the Human body is beautiful in all it's variety and love and affection take many forms...
Perhaps we could "legalise" and "destigmatise" consenual behaviour between adults...Like the Pagan Imperative:"Harming none, Do as thou wilt."
I'm sick of the moralising, hypocritical posturing. This is a major reason I ultimately rejected Christianity...
I couldn't believe in a God that would ,presumeably, create me as I am, and turn around and condemn me for being as I am.
War , Sex and Drugs are the biggest businesses on the planet. It's who we are.Maybe, if we softened up a bit on the latter two, we would have less of the former.( I'll get onto Dope later...)
Something called the Dove foundation called me out of the blue.Wanted my support to "fix" tv.I said great!
Then they started in about sex and nudity....and profanity. I told them I thought it was stupid to excise the word"fuck", a womens breast, or nonpornographic representations of consensual lovemaking and leave in images of folks getting cut in half with machine guns!
They hung up on me.
Wasn't what they wanted to hear, I guess.
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