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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:45:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> It's also interesting to me that pundits are constantly railing against the
> alleged banishment of religion from the public square, but sexuality is much
> more thoroughly banished from public view, and certainly from public
> discourse, though it's been a part of human culture for far longer than
> relgioin!
What is the link you see (or want to see) between time-in-culture and publicity?
Maybe the fact that religion keeps reinventing itself is specifically why it
stays newsworthy while human sexuality is mostly static. (And note that when we
do have cultural discussions about issues of a sexual nature, it is in response
to changing mores (e.g. those produced by the advent of serious sexually
transmitted infections) or once-fringe sexual behavior gaining momentum (e.g.
pornography and bondage).)
But I'm all for taking a stand in the de-tabooization of sex. My daughter (2.5
years old now) is still breastfeeding (which is scandalous in itself :-) and my
wife is starting to feel uncomfortable doing so in public. I'm helping her to
stay comfortable and telling her that it's her duty to keep it up as long as she
can stand it to bring needed change to the world. We should feel comfortable
with our bodies and our mamalian reproductive habits and our almost uniquely
human recreational adaptations of those behaviors.
Chris
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| (...) This is a really good question, and I hadn't thought about it in those terms. I guess I would have to note, as you suggest, that attempts to reinvent sexuality (or the expression thereof) are met with vigorous resistence, often by the very (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) For the sake of literary snobbery, I did a little looking over the weekend, and here are two examples I came up with: (URL) From Book One, chapter 4:> Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite towards him and began dictating in (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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