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From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sex generally
Message-ID: <580@pyuxc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 11:27:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 11:27:39 1984
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A few years back I saw a cartoon in the National Lampoon that
I think is very appropriate to half of the discussions in
net.singles.
The cartoon shows Adam, just after being created.  He has
no genitalia.  God looks at him and says "I think something's
missing" and adds genitalia.  Adam looks at the addition
and is pleased.  God says to him "There's just one catch -
you can't use it."
Seems to me that cartoon is a good summary of society's
(the world's?) basic ambivalence toward sex.  We all want it,
we're all biologically driven to seek and enjoy it, and yet we think
it's wrong - at best it's naughty; at worst it's evil.
Isn't it about time we dropped that attitude?
Then there'd be no real opposition to establishing a net.personals,
and there'd be no debate about the role of religion in sex,
or sex in religion, or religion on sex, hold the mayo, or whatever,
because sex would not be an issue, but a fact of life (no pun
intended).
To address religion briefly, I've always found it hard to believe that
God (assuming his/her/its existence, as I do) would crete us
with nerve endings that enjoy sex iand then forbid us to use them.
In short, what's all the fuss about.  Do what you want, have fun,
don't hurt anyone, etc.
Lovers of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but
your chastity belts.