Come on now. Mastering our appetites, rather than letting our appetites master us, is considered a virtue, by pretty much every system of moral philosophy humans have ever devised. I think even philosophical hedonism generally asks for some degree of self-discipline.
I'm not sure this is all that true. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman's were not exactly prudes. There have been societies in Asia and the South Pacific where sexual freedom was encouraged not discouraged.
There's something wrong there. I'm working on it.
Maybe the comma I just added helps.
Even among modern religions, sex within marriage is considered healthy and desirable.
Let's get this clear, education is the silver bullet (your words) that fixes all the problems identified in that Guardian article you posted, but you have no idea (given the failure in the UK and, indeed, all countries apparently) how that might become efficacious? Some thirty posts trumpeting the effectiveness of education and you don't have a single idea?
A year ago:
No.
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Don't disparage the NPCC without a good reason.
Ok, go ahead.This is incorrect. Would you like to know more? I could explain with examples of very successful species where the majority of individuals do not reproduce. I wonder if you can think of any on your own.
Indeed, that is why we would not cite Bonobos as justification for a sexual free-for-all.
No we don't - we upload some of it and propagate that by massive consumption to the point that it is easily available to kids.
We?
Humans. Most people are propagating porn.
I think you just jumped the shark...
We don't cite it because it's natural (unless we're directly countering 'it's unnatural!') we cite it because we can show they use it in a way that improves their social cohesion; an example that sexual contact can be used that way by an intelligent social animal.
This is massively wrong unless you add a few words to narrow things way down from 'all species.' But yes our evolutionary line has been using heterosexual attraction as a driver for reproduction for quite some time.
Don't you have access to the forum's OnlyFans pages?
I will say that it's clear that far more people make and share porn now than ever, but as far as I can tell the vast majority of that stuff has nothing to do with Poem's concerns. It's a bunch of exhibitionists and horny folks, some of them getting a little side cash from monetizing their activities, some of them just having fun and fishing for compliments.
I'm not concerned by the commodification and denigration of intimacy and sex? You are not concerned? - the destruction of the very essence of human romantic relationships?
Sex is not the very essence of human relationships. Sexual reproduction is a characteristic we share with not just with all of the Kingdom Animalia but also with almost all of the Domain Eukaryota.
FTFY.
Is this a new guessing game?