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Subject:	Re: tolerant morals are a blueprint to disaster (but I don't force a change)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:59:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes: > > > During my teen years there would have been no greater incentive NOT to have > > > sex than to have to watch my parents going at it. > I'm not sure what degree of humor is intended by either of you, but I've heard > that before and bet you're both wrong. If you had been raised seeing sexual > expression of your parents love as a normal event, you would not be squicked > by the notion right now. I was indeed being facetious, but I can see the issue you're addressing. I note that you're already putting a spin on it that presupposes your view to be right and mine to be wrong; specifically, you are saying that your favorable emotional response that directly affects only you is correct but my unfavorable emotional response that directly affects only me is not. Regardless of the love present in or absent from my parents' coitus, what if the simple spectacle of them is aesthetically unappealing to me on a visual level? Your assertion seems to claim that I must view all human sexuality as being of equivalent beauty (or at least non-ickiness), and that's simply not consistent with reality. As evidence, I ask if you are equally attracted to every single man, woman, and child you meet? If not, why not? And how is it different? That certainly doesn't mean it's morally bad or damaging to witness one's parents, however. Nor does it mean that my parents should have been obsessively clandestine in their sexuality! You're basically paraphrasing Diogenes, I believe, who said "if masturbation be not absurd, then it be not absurd in the marketplace." Dave!

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		Re: tolerant morals are a blueprint to disaster (but I don't force a change)
(...) Actually, I didn't. I said that I "bet" that you would feel differently if things had been different. (...) That would be fine with me. But I think the "ickyness" that we feel when considering our parents having sex is based on having sex be (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: tolerant morals are a blueprint to disaster (but I don't force a change)
(...) K, this one made me laugh out loud. That would be something to see (but probably still have a high 'Ick" factor). Again, something that others can do, but I probably would ahem abstain... Is like the new law in Ontario which states that (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: tolerant morals are a blueprint to disaster (but I don't force a change)
(...) I'm not sure what degree of humor is intended by either of you, but I've heard that before and bet you're both wrong. If you had been raised seeing sexual expression of your parents love as a normal event, you would not be squicked by the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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