[ExI] sex - was Re: The smart-stupid dimension

[William Flynn Wallace]

(found this in my Drafts folder - sorry it wasn't sent at a more
appropriate time)

pornography - the writings of prostitutes

should be - pornopia, since most of it is visual

OK, libertarians, see if you can swallow this:

Humans have turned sex into something dirty and obscene.  How did we allow
that?  (all right, probably telling children to scare them and warn them
away)  No telling how much psychological damage that has done over the
millennia.

People having sex or people nude.  Why isn't that just fun?  Exciting?  It
does provoke sexual behavior.  So what?  We have The Pill.  We have
preventions for disease.  In underage children it's totally safe (well,
some disease from older children maybe).

So anyway, why do we buy the idea that pornopia is obscene?  Why do we hide
the human body from children?  Why put fig leaves over what we know is
there?  Sex ed by parents is nearly extinct, if it ever really lived at
all.  College students in my classrooms were woefully ignorant and held
numerous superstitions their society had thrust on them (probably mostly
peers and kids a few years older).  "Not my mother!"  seemed to be the
theme.  (Mother as Madonna figure?  Sexless?).

Isn't this outrageous?  The USA, according to studies done worldwide, is a
moderately repressive society, as I have mentioned before.  A nation
gripped by sexual anxiety of all kinds.  We caution against masturbation
when we should be openly recommending it.  This was said to be Onan's sin,
but I think it was disobedience.

And tons more.  What do evolutionary theorists say about the origins of
this? What can we do to make people free and easy about sex?  (I am NOT
suggesting any notion of sex with everyone or the like, though I cannot
find any moral reasons against it.  Many, like me, will prefer monogamy).

bill w

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:33 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Libertarians on the stupid side of the smart-stupid dimension think it
> would be nice if the ENORMOUS and rapidly increasing gap between the rich
> and the poor that has occurred in every part of the world in the last few
> years will never cause them any problems and therefore it never will,
> libertarians on the smart side of that dimension think it's only a matter
> of time before it does cause problems and it doesn't matter if that would
> be nice or not.
>
> Liberals on the stupid side of the smart-stupid dimension think there
> would be more justice in society if intelligence has nothing to do with
> genetics and sexual preference has nothing to do with anything *except*
> genetics, so that is the way things must be.  Liberals on the smart side of
> that dimension think genes are the way genes are and social justice has
> nothing to do with it.
>
> Conservatives on the stupid side of the smart-stupid dimension think it
> would be nice if homosexuality and pornography caused earthquakes floods
> and hurricanes and therefore they must, conservatives on the smart side of
> that dimension think the cause and effect relationship has not yet been
> proven.
>
>  John K Clark
>
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