Roger,
If you don't understand the difference, then no one can explain it to you. But
there is a difference between describing people eating together as opposed to
people being involved in sexual activity.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Gratuitous Prudery
Since I mentioned gratuitous prudery let me express my opinion of that more
explicitly. It is obvious to me that sex is something that is a shared
experience of humanity. Having worked in some of the peripheral areas of the
sex industry I am especially aware that it is very rare that anyone gets
through life without having sex. Even the most unattractive people you can
imagine have sex. It might not be as frequent for them as it is for most
people, but they do have sex. Even the nerdiest of the nerds have sex. Prudish
old grandmothers could not have become grandmothers if they had not had sex.
Even children have sex. An example of that was a woman who was telling me about
her first sexual experience. She was eight years old when she had lesbian sex
with her nine-year-old friend. But even with examples like that about the only
people who get through life without having sex actually are children who die
before they have a chance to try it out. Now, if it is such a shared
experience, such an experience that we all have, then why do so many people get
so uptight about it? Why do so many people go to such ends to keep sex a secret
from children as if they aren't going to find out that it exists anyway? Why do
so many people have to pretend that they know nothing about sex? Why do so many
people get so offended when someone else casually admits to knowing about and
indulging in sex?
Really, if anything causes me to have a strong urge to roll my eyes it is when
someone starts some prudish self-righteous declaration of how such things
should be kept private and should never be mentioned in public and so forth
when it is such a shared experience. Really, why should we all keep such things
so secret when it is such a shared experience? Eating is a shared experience
too and no one tries to keep it a secret that they eat food. People eat food
openly in public and in social gatherings and no one is offended if someone
says that a certain dish was really enjoyable. There is no point in keeping
food consumption a secret because it is a universally shared experience. So is
sex. What is the point of prudery?
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief
and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your
patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's
wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly
bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory scientifically
demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had not the courage to
follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must realize that we
created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin D.
Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept