but don't you see that it's only 'exploitive' because of society's view of sex?
if we made nose-blowing taboo then nose-blowers would be ostracized and cast down, but it doesnt mean what they are doing is inherently wrong.
in the 1800s showing large tracts of breast was acceptable but an exposed ankle drew gasps.
today the inverse is true. why? what changed? it is |purely| a social construction. the examples are myriad.
we make things right and wrong all the time...how many single pregnant girls had their lives ruined in the 50's because of oppressive social ideas? were they incapable of loving or raising their child? were they bad mothers? no, they were just filthy, disgusting, nasty, worthless, potato sinners who didn't deserve to live with the rest of us good people that's all.....
thankfully reason has thawed that old belief out a bit and women don't have to kill themselves, move out of town, cry themselves to sleep every night in self-hate, raise a child they hate or visit dr. coat hanger as much these days....
if sex were put back into perspective as a regular bodily function and taken out of the dark primitive realm of superstition where sex is some dirty, filthy, horrible necessity, then people having sex would hardly be worth noting much less scoffing at.
in other words - it only breaks your heart to see your daughter posing because the act is considered evil, not because it is inherently bad.
it wouldn't affect you at all to see her eat pork but it would if you were moslem......
is she physically injured? no - is it enjoyable to her? maybe....but the only thing making it evil is the place society puts it in...it has no natural or god-given place, we define it every day.
an "awesome sexual relationship" to the pious may be mary laying back once a year while jebadiah does the 'filthy deed', wishing he could pray a baby into existance rather than have to do such a dirty, horrible, corporeal, squishy thing.
of course he wouldn't dare think that thought because such insolence would surely result in the very suitable punishment of an infinite, relentless torture upon his death for daring to question the divine way..... instead of blindly quivering with inspired fear as commanded....
sexual thoughts are natural - repressing them is abnormal. i will never be able to live that way in my lifetime because i too am programmed a certain way like everyone else, but eventually we may get it right....sexual monogamy may always have some useful biological role but those who choose not to live that way may one day walk the earth 'un-smitten'.
....see a catholic priest for an example of what happens to people who try to repress their natural tendencies for too long...now they are thinking about allowing marriage among priests?! but...but..but...i thought it was a divine and infallable directive right from god via the pope(who also infallably represents the word of god)? now it's maybe 'not-divine'? so it was......wrong? GASP!
hmmmmm who's really pullin' the switches.....i guess the bus will rattle dangerously out of control along this dirt road with us cowering in the back until we realize the driver isn't invisible, he's not there! and that if we don't want to go off a curve, we need to take the wheel. decriminalizing various aspects of nature will be step one.
