There are so many things I feel strongly about that I no longer bother to bring up in public discussion lest I work my fingers to bruised and calloused stumps or rub my vocal cords bloody from speech. I'm grateful to find, from time to time, someone who shares one of my beliefs and is able to express themselves in a clear, well thought manner.
Our predecessors made a terrible mistake when they decided to use religion as a method for mentally and socially linking sex and love in some unbreakable bond. While, at the time, limits may have been needed to control population, social unrest, the spread of disease, and a plethora of other things, implementing those limits though sex and enforcing them through religious fear was a wrong turn. This has led to a society of people that are not only missing out on some of the finer aspects of physical pleasure this body has to offer, but are also unknowingly contributing to their own unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and confinement by holding these false and outdated beliefs.
I was delighted to read Sami's article, "We Few, We Happy Few, We Band Of Brothers", this morning on this very topic. If it is possible to present this idea in a way that might actually be understood by remaining members of the masses that haven't been so totally brainwashed by the religious zealots and "born again virgins" that they have no remaining brain cells with which to participate in independent thought, then this is surely it.
If you'd like clarification of my own stance because you find it interesting I'm happy to talk with you. If you would just like to offer a conflicting point of view with nothing to back it up, then please, kindly take your arguments into your own spaces and discuss them there where I'll be happy to read along and comment when I see fit. If you'd like to suggest that you are one of those rare people that have sex and love linked in your brain (or the brain of your significant other) that was not brought on by religious or social upbringing, then that, too, can go unspoken here. Just go stand with the others making that same claim in the dark boring corner back there. You know the one with all the girls wearing very low cut shirts and all the guys knocking each other in the ribs as the girl with the great ass walks by. It's my birthday this weekend and I'm hoping I'll have reason to use my fingers and vocal cords for other purposes.
