It's clear to me that a driving force in society is sex. It permeates everything, but most people are completely dysfunctional in dealing with it.
We are, at our cores, sexual beings because that's how nature designs a species to survive. It is more important than any other aspect of human nature. It had to be that way, and it relates to the cosmic question of why the universe is so perfectly balanced to support life on this planet. It had to be that way in order create an observer that would ask that very question. Unless sex was the most important thing to human beings, the species would never had survived.
We know we are driven by sex, and nearly everything that we do is a means to that end because we have no biological control over it. Naturally, anything that important is bound to cause complications and problems for people. Society, and I'm not sure how or why, determined the basic paradigm that we are supposed to adhere to in sexuality. That paradigm is what is causing the problems, not the sex per se.
People even set themselves against their own nature. Catholic priests.. Ted Haggard.. Bill Clinton.. Mark Foley.. the list is endless. The freedom to choose to not set one's self against nature is probably the greatest freedom that Western society offers. We can choose to reject the very premise that we should act against our natures. Nowhere else in the world can you do what you want without fear of retaliation.
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Having somewhat of a difficult time describing why this issue came to mind. It's not a good story.. in fact, it's awful.. but as old as mankind. If you really want to know, the bottom of this post from Jesus' General has the details.. but really.. it's just awful.
The moral of the story is.. be who you are, and don't let society dictate who you are.. but make sure the people close to you know who you are up front.
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I think about that a lot. I've concluded that sexual imagery or stimulation periodically causes parts of our brain to emit powerful hormones, neurotransmitters and other mind-altering chemicals, which immediately get a grip on the rest of the brain and force it to do otherwise out-of-character things. I don't think I need to specify any more details to adults. We all recognize such events in retrospect. Whew, did I really do that? Uh, I guess so.
That's why, I think, we find sex so embarrassing. We're on involuntary remote control during our own sexual behavior, and our normal brain finds it humiliating.
After all, every child initially says, "yuck!" when first learning about the mechanics of sex.
Our ordinary personalities would never do such things without being influenced by these powerful mind-altering chemicals, starting around puberty.
It's certainly a difficult topic to talk about.. even for me, and I'm pretty up front about everything.
I really didn't say what I was trying to say, and I probably don't even need to bother.. but I got the basic point across that people just need to make sure they are on the same wave-length as their partner.. but if people are truly close, they will be.
Most aren't.. which is why you see such a high divorce rate. There's a relatively easy fix to that, but people just can't communicate.
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