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Re: Introductions?

Posted by Dante on Monday, December 15 2014 at 02:42:56AM
In reply to Re: Introductions? posted by SierraWhiskey on Sunday, December 14 2014 at 3:30:10PM

"If this is about my use of the word introduce, then I'll say that I think it is pretty apt, given what I was replying to:
Here is a vibrator want to try it?"


And yet most of us can understand that both society and youth are safer when an adult says "here's a condom, want to try it?"

If they aren't sexually active, access won't force them to become active. If they are, it will make it safer.

To the abstinence-only type the introduction somehow creates activity that never would have occurred in those who aren't naturally inclined to be curious or interested.

But why is it that sex is the only area of play where we limit ourselves solely to damage control and avoid the whole topic of pleasure.

Imagine a school with an art program consistent solely of warnings about the hazards of paint thinner, potential allergies to linseed oil and about the lead content in white pigment, and whose students were told that painting can be pleasurable, and that some day after their schooling is long past they may be ready but that demonstrating how it can be fun now is not something teachers should do.

Imagine teaching students how to cook solely to prevent burns and even to discuss the vitamin content and digestion, but to never to actually cook or to discuss flavor, or spicing anything to taste.

In every other area of play the obvious point that play is fun is one of the main things which is taught. Art appreciation and music appreciation are taught on the basis that an adult mentor can bring out even more things to take pleasure in from what is already a pleasurable experience.

Sex seems to be the only area where our religious indoctrination allows us to look with suspicion on pleasure as an end in itself and something which education and promotion can make better. At least in the Middle-Ages the deniers of hedonism weren't so eager to demonize sex to the exclusion of other pleasures. We live in a very hedonistic world that by and large no longer shares the church's distrust of gastronomy and of the arts. But perhaps its because even the man being fed gruel in a bare prison cell can jack-off, that we still live within a culture which hasn't abandoned its denial of sex the same way it ceded so much ground on the pleasures which must be supplied from outside.

Dante

Dante





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