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Originally Posted by Erki  @Jes: why should sex have something to do with morality at all? |
The same reason any other subject would: consideration for others. Up until a few decades ago, the world operated under a set of spoken and unspoken rules to keep people united. People observed them and had a few less reasons to want to kill each other. Families observed them and stayed together. There is a universal understanding of honor, morality, and respect, or at least there was for the greater majority of civilization's existence. In many different cultures in many different nations, for many, many centuries it was believed that sex should essentially be a topic kept for the bedroom. Yes, there were times where promiscuity and the like among certain classes was considered socially accpetable, but overall it's been a private thing to most people most of the time. While I don't have a huge problem with it not being that way now, I don't think that the most recent sexual liberation has done any good for the world. There are more divorces, more rapes, more diseases, more murders, more heartaches, more perversion than there has ever been, and it's all because we've developed this insane mentality that we can only truly be free if we operate on an individual basis, without any recognition of the universal "rules" of morality. Honestly, it's no wonder why the western world is so frowned upon by so many other cultures at this point in time. We do what we want, when we want, without any thought for the feelings of others, and I think that's just a disgusting way to live. I don't consider sex a sacred act or anything, but I recognize it makes a lot of people uncomfortable, as do MANY other ideas, and I'd rather be less liberal with my views if it means that everyone can live comfortably together. And that's what morality was designed to do: let people live comfortably united. Don't lust after my wife, and I won't lust after your husband. However you get your kicks, and whatever you think of sex, most people would just be happier if you kept it away from the kids and in the bedroom.
::End Bizzarro Rant::