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October 22, 2005
Topic for Discussion - Why is sex "bad" again?
This is admittedly a US-specific question, but here in the States sex is viewed as "bad" or "wrong" or "evil" by a good many people, even though other natural bodily functions like eating are considered perfectly normal.
Why?
The typical answer says something about our "Puritan roots". That would be a perfectly viable answer back when we had a reasonable Puritan population... but how many registered voters are Puritan nowadays, anyway? Certainly not a majority.
Puritans were also convinced that dancing was evil. If you enjoyed dancing, you were being tempted by Satan. Yet, today we can talk about dancing as a fun recreational activity. What happened to the Puritan roots? I'm sure there are a hundred other examples of polite conversation today that would have been blasphemous 200 years ago.
So, this whole "sex is bad" thing has to be more than just history. What is it about sex that makes it stick around as a taboo, when so many other things became normal and natural? (I doubt it's the whole "mystique" thing, either -- the only reason sex is mysterious at all is because we refuse to talk about it.)
Anyone care to share their theories?
Posted by IanSchreiber at October 22, 2005 03:05 PM | Discuss this post on our forums
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I think we were headed towards getting beyond this puritanical nonsense a couple decades ago with the 'sexual revolution', but then AIDS happened, and that set us way back. We won't make much, if any, progress till a cure is found imo. When that happens though, its going to be like an explosion, all the pent up demand thats been repressed because of fear is going to be let out.
Posted by: renamed_player at September 19, 2005 10:01 AM