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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Sex generally
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Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 11:03:29 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 15 11:03:29 1984
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> From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck)

> 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."

If this were true, then how could God expect us to "be fruitful and multiply"?

> 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).

There is nothing in Christianity that says "You can't have sex".  I won't
take the time here to say what Christianity says about sex, since you have
heard it probably a thousand times before, but don't be misled by what people
say.

> 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 and 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.

One thing that is interesting to note is that when Adam and Eve lived in the
Garden of Eden, they were naked, and *were not ashamed*.  Presumably, they
had sex (I can't see why we can't assume that they didn't).  Now, after their
transgression, sex became a "Dirty Thing" (well, actually nakedness) because
Adam and Eve felt they had to hide from God.  In short, the attitude towards
sex was created at the time of Adam and Eve's fall, and has nothing to do
with God forbidding them to have sex or anything.
-- 
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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