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<blockquote data-quote="Aurondarklord" data-source="post: 6057475" data-attributes="member: 6667464"><p>Okay, if sex has a special moral character, then WHY does it have a special moral character?</p><p></p><p>I have only heard two real arguments, on opposite ends of the spectrum.</p><p></p><p>1: sex is evil. You can have a wide variety of justifications for this, ranging from unprovable religious dogma, to more modern ideas that sexual dynamics allow one gender to objectify or exploit the other, but the net result is the same, sex is somehow fundamentally dirty, to be avoided and shamed, and if you have to do it...which obviously we have to in order to keep our species going, should be kept locked up within marriage, in the bedroom with the lights off, for the purpose of producing children. And of course it should be enjoyed as little as possible, which means any sort of fornication, and especially women who would offer that kind of sinister temptation for money, or are the victims of an oppressive system that's forced them or brainwashed them into promiscuity, because no right thinking woman could possibly want that on her own, depending on where you come at this view from...well that's just right out!</p><p></p><p>2: sex is sacred. It is a transcendent experience, the peak of human intimacy and love, it should be a fairy tale, something you save for that one special soulmate to whom you consecrate yourself with marriage after an epic courtship where you prove to each other that your love can endure all hardships and demonstrate that you're worthy of your partner's most precious gift, that of course can be shared only with someone so special. And those who have sex more freely are demeaning it, turning this most incredible of things into something base and mundane, and certainly prostitutes, who assign financial value to something inherently priceless are the worst of the worst.</p><p></p><p>Whether you sneer at sex or put it on the ultimate pedestal, you're inherently defining it as something abnormal, something that exists apart from the rest of the world and must be treated with the utmost kid gloves, which certainly does not sound like a "normal, healthy activity".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aurondarklord, post: 6057475, member: 6667464"] Okay, if sex has a special moral character, then WHY does it have a special moral character? I have only heard two real arguments, on opposite ends of the spectrum. 1: sex is evil. You can have a wide variety of justifications for this, ranging from unprovable religious dogma, to more modern ideas that sexual dynamics allow one gender to objectify or exploit the other, but the net result is the same, sex is somehow fundamentally dirty, to be avoided and shamed, and if you have to do it...which obviously we have to in order to keep our species going, should be kept locked up within marriage, in the bedroom with the lights off, for the purpose of producing children. And of course it should be enjoyed as little as possible, which means any sort of fornication, and especially women who would offer that kind of sinister temptation for money, or are the victims of an oppressive system that's forced them or brainwashed them into promiscuity, because no right thinking woman could possibly want that on her own, depending on where you come at this view from...well that's just right out! 2: sex is sacred. It is a transcendent experience, the peak of human intimacy and love, it should be a fairy tale, something you save for that one special soulmate to whom you consecrate yourself with marriage after an epic courtship where you prove to each other that your love can endure all hardships and demonstrate that you're worthy of your partner's most precious gift, that of course can be shared only with someone so special. And those who have sex more freely are demeaning it, turning this most incredible of things into something base and mundane, and certainly prostitutes, who assign financial value to something inherently priceless are the worst of the worst. Whether you sneer at sex or put it on the ultimate pedestal, you're inherently defining it as something abnormal, something that exists apart from the rest of the world and must be treated with the utmost kid gloves, which certainly does not sound like a "normal, healthy activity". [/QUOTE]
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