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[animans_animus]

"How many people really think it's in the best interest of young people to be sexually active outside of marriage? Does anything positive ever come from that?"

- Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK

FUCK HIM.

SERIOUSLY.

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[animans_animus]

This doesn't answer your question, but the amount of hypocrisy and outright idiocy in that quote just astounds me. Honestly, the people who wait until marriage to have sex are in the minority, and most of these "upstanding Christians" like dear Mr. Coburn there fucked before they got married and damn well enjoyed it.

But to actually answer it: People who understand what they're getting into, those who take the risks and take precautions against them, can strengthen a relationship or have fun or whatever. Sex isn't always safe even in marriage; what if your spouse had AIDS, gonorrhea, hepatitis, or something, and just didn't tell you (or didn't know)?

Yes, there are risks out there in sex, but there's a risk in pretty much everything. Humans are designed to have sex, they've just romanticized what is a basic function for the survival of the species. Cavemen didn't have marriage, but lucky for us, they didn't abstain; and obviously the act hasn't destroyed us in all of our years of existence.

Besides that, I'm taking this as another blow to gays (although I don't really think he intended that). Gays have been denied marriage on the basis that they're not "natural" or whatever is the current flavor of the month; that statement just strikes me as another bitchslap in the face of the gay community that don't have the privilege of living in Massachussettes.

But honestly, as I've said many times before, if people want to abstain and wait until marriage, that's fine by me; live and let live, you know? But I get pissed off when someone tries to tell others that they're horrible, evil little heathens just because they don't subscribe to that person's morals.

That turned into a bit of rant.