Right As Usual

Sex and marriage are - shall we say - intimately entwined. The share of Americans ages 25-34 who are married dropped 13 percentage points from 2000 to 2014. A new book by sociologist Mark Regnerus blames this declining rate on how easy it is for men to get off. Today's American norms show that very few people need to marry to achieve their goal of having as much sex as they want. Self-love for men and women is at an all-time high. A 1992 study found that 29 percent of men (and 9 percent of women) masturbated at least once a week. In 2014, 49 percent of men (and 32 percent of women) confessed to doing it at least once in the previous six days. Unsurprisingly, “as frequency of [watching] porn increased, so did masturbation.” That's sex. Not love. Love remains elusive for many, if not most, of the American population. Ironically, the things that drive men to marry aren't what you'd think - the Top 4, according to Match.com: Someone who treats them with res...

I'm not a big fan of Revenge Porn. That's the practice of posting video of former lovers online out of a mean-spirited Gotcha! when they leave/hurt you. It's one of those things that some women - or, women-ish people - would do. Think Mean Girls in the Grown-up World. Well, sort of Grown-up. If the video was taken without consent, that should settle the issue - the one that knew about the video CANNOT post it, and, if he/she does, may not only go to jail for some extended time - HARD TIME - but stands to lose ALL his/her money/possessions. Plus, must pay that person compensation even after leaving jail. As well as being branded a sexual predator - which, I think, is an accurate description. If the video was consensual, that's different. The fact that you were a dumba$$ to agree to it wipes out the victimization. IF the victim was 16 or older, and the other person was within two years of that age, at the time of filming, AND it was consensual - again, tough luc...

This is something I've wondered about for ages, myself. Scientifically, it has been known for more than a full century that human beings, who intimately share infected bodily secretions, spread disease among themselves and all others with whom they later come into intimate contact, and even to their innocent offspring.  Lifelong disease is not something for which sane human beings strive.  Yet it is the absolutely predictable -- scientifically! -- result of this "sexual liberation" social construct.   "Sexual liberation" has produced whole generations of smart people, who wouldn't share a glass of water with a stranger for fear of contracting a communicable disease, but will willingly copulate with the same stranger in scientifically deluded fashion. It just amazes me that the same kids that obsessively use the anti-bacterial gels will be, many times, the same ones that engage in intimate activities with strangers. Share

Ace of Spades has a provocative post about the REAL outcomes of the Let's "Free" Women to Have Promiscuous Sex, Anytime, Any Place, Without Any Commitment" movements of the 1970s. I gotta agree - I think we women were HAD.  In every sense of the word. Share

I found this gem on The Dawn Patrol : Precisely because sex does not always create children, yet it always holds the promise of creating children, that sex stands for something greater than itself. Because sex is designed to produce children, yet does not always produce them, the act is transformed from a simple biological action into… there was no other word for it… poetry. Because sex contains not a hard reality, but only a future promise, it becomes a promise, the promise of the man to the woman "I will be with you always, even if this does produce that for which it is designed." And by this act, the man gives himself not just to the woman, he gives himself primarily to the not-yet-conceived child. That is why sex is MORE than just biology.