<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><span></span><span>On Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:41 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>(found this in my Drafts folder - sorry it wasn't</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sent at a more appropriate time)> </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pornography - the writings of prostitutes</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>should be - pornopia, since most of it is visual</span></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Words tend to shift meaning over time. I was told "salsa" just means "sauce" in Castilian -- at least in the context of food. In American English, it means something more specific. So?</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>OK, libertarians, see if you can swallow this:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Humans have turned sex into something dirty and obscene.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>How did we allow that? (all right, probably telling</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>children to scare them and warn them away) No telling</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>how much psychological damage that has done over the millennia.></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>People having sex or people nude. Why isn't that just fun?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Exciting? It does provoke sexual behavior. So what? We</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>have The Pill. We have preventions for disease. In</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>underage children it's totally safe (well, some disease</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>from older children maybe).></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>So anyway, why do we buy the idea that pornopia is obscene?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Why do we hide the human body from children? Why put fig</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>leaves over what we know is there? Sex ed by parents is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>nearly extinct, if it ever really lived at all. College</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>students in my classrooms were woefully ignorant and held</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>numerous superstitions their society had thrust on them</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(probably mostly peers and kids a few years older). "Not my</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mother!" seemed to be the theme. (Mother as Madonna figure?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sexless?). ></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Isn't this outrageous? The USA, according to studies done</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>worldwide, is a moderately repressive society, as I have</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mentioned before. A nation gripped by sexual anxiety of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>all kinds. We caution against masturbation when we should</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>be openly recommending it. This was said to be Onan's sin,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>but I think it was disobedience. ></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>And tons more. What do evolutionary theorists say about</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the origins of this? What can we do to make people free </span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>and easy about sex? (I am NOT suggesting any notion of</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sex with everyone or the like, though I cannot find any</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>moral reasons against it. Many, like me, will prefer monogamy).</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Since Bill W mentioned libertarians, I'm wondering who this is directed at. The general libertarian view is live and let live. This goes for nudists, naturists, sex workers, the whole sex positive crowd. If anything, libertarians tend to be more sex positive. So I'm wondering what Bill is looking for here. Maybe he's conflating "libertarian" with "conservative."</span><br><span></span><br><span>Or is he looking for libertarians to explain why US-American culture seems sexually repressive? If so, the standard explanation is Puritanism left its mark.</span><br><br><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div></body></html>