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Christians and Sex

I don't imagine that I'm alone in attributing Catholic notions of sex with the beginnings of my atheism....
We had our very first sex-education class (and the very first in the entire diocese) long about 1962. Taught to boys and girls separately, of course.
The priest showed us the naughty bits of both with nice non-sexual line drawings, and explained in airy details how they worked.
Then... He described how a young man might achieve orgasm by self-manipulation.
"Oh!, says I...THAT's what I've been doing every night!"

Then the fatal words..... "Of course, this is a mortal sin..."

Surely you jest, sir....
 
MRC_Hans said:
I think there was once a (small) Christian sect, or cult, who preached total sexual abstinence and apparently practiced it to a sufficient degree to make themselves extinct.

No, I don't have a source......

Hans
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Post #11.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I thought Christian marriages were "until death do us part", leaving everyone single in the afterlife? Are there any denominations that believe marriages aren't dissolved by death? That must make remarriage of widows and widowers complicated...
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When my dad died, the priest at the hospital told my mother that the church considers the marriage over, and she could do what she wanted.
I thought that was somewhat cold, considering the timing... 2 minutes after the death itself.
 
I Ratant said:
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When my dad died, the priest at the hospital told my mother that the church considers the marriage over, and she could do what she wanted.
I thought that was somewhat cold, considering the timing... 2 minutes after the death itself.
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Priests are notoriously bad at flirting.
 
Bikewer said:
I don't imagine that I'm alone in attributing Catholic notions of sex with the beginnings of my atheism....
We had our very first sex-education class (and the very first in the entire diocese) long about 1962. Taught to boys and girls separately, of course.
The priest showed us the naughty bits of both with nice non-sexual line drawings, and explained in airy details how they worked.
Then... He described how a young man might achieve orgasm by self-manipulation.
"Oh!, says I...THAT's what I've been doing every night!"

Then the fatal words..... "Of course, this is a mortal sin..."

Surely you jest, sir....
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I'd learned that nocturnal emissions themselves were mortal sins, if forgiveness was not asked for upon awakening.
The bible thumpers would make breathing a mortal sin, if they could.
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My buddy Sam, when he was in the Navy, said there were rumors of the "Phantom of the f'csle"... A gob might wake up after a wet-dream, and find no emission. ! :)
 
Fnord said:
Have you tried varying the frequency?
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I'm in the process of increasing that, as a matter of fact.

Now, the rate is separate from frequency, right?

Anyway, so far I've got a universal adapter, so I know that can't be it.

I have been tempted on occasion to order some of those things that promise to give me more bars to improve my service, but from what I've read about them, they don't perform.

I dunno.
 
MRC_Hans said:
There is a bible story about that (NT, but I have no idea where): Apparently, there was a Hebrew tradition that if a married man died, his younger brother (provided he had an unmarried younger brother) married the widow. Now, it seems there was this widow who had married, and lost, 7 brothers, and somebody asked Jesus which of them she should marry in Heaven. Jesus replied that people don't marry in Heaven.

Hans
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Luke 20:27-39
 
MRC_Hans said:
I think there was once a (small) Christian sect, or cult, who preached total sexual abstinence and apparently practiced it to a sufficient degree to make themselves extinct.

No, I don't have a source......

Hans
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I bet they made nice furniture though. (See post#11 by Fnord)
 
The Norseman said:
I'm in the process of increasing that, as a matter of fact.

Now, the rate is separate from frequency, right?

Anyway, so far I've got a universal adapter, so I know that can't be it.

I have been tempted on occasion to order some of those things that promise to give me more bars to improve my service, but from what I've read about them, they don't perform.

I dunno.
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I've heard increasing the frequency of the bars tends to end up with uggers in the morning!
 
Working with wood, from trees now, is very satisfying.
I was quite jealous of the carpenter in Little Big Man who was planing a coffin, and got the most beautiful long shaving in one stroke. (still talking wood from trees now).
That is quite a challenge.
 
I Ratant said:
Working with wood, from trees now, is very satisfying.
I was quite jealous of the carpenter in Little Big Man who was planing a coffin, and got the most beautiful long shaving in one stroke. (still talking wood from trees now).
That is quite a challenge.
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Hey! Jesus was a carpenter too! Coincidence? I think not!
 
GWIMW.
When it all comes together... that's assembling all the coherent parts, that is, yes.
 
hgc said:
I bet they made nice furniture though. (See post#11 by Fnord)
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It doesn't quite fit my mental picture of the story; I thought it was something more ancient, but ... I guess it must be them.

Hans
 
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