Sacred Sexuality: Sexuality Under Siege? (Part 1 of..I dunno)

[slavetosin69]

eh, there was going to be a disclaimer, but fuck that. If you don't like what I have to say, you are free to not read or leave.

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[prisoner007]

"And that is to say that it was mostly focused on various religious, and conservative interests taking an interest in what I do within my bedroom, or another bedroom with a consenting adult, and how decriminalization of selling sex would actually make it safer, less exploitive, and easier for most people involved."

See the criminalization and dirtifying of sex can be traced back to a simple concept. Female ownership. Some cultures viewed brides as properity. You do not buy a used product and so you make sex all about procreation and not pleasure. It's a way of controlling what people do. It means that a woman's husband controls when and where a woman gets to have sex.

(I've just woken up so I hope this makes as much sense here as it did in my head when I was thinking it.)

[donnalee_kiss]

Yep, there is quite a bit of evidence that 'free love' and women who decide their own fates are looked upon by some as dangerous.

[prisoner007]

Oh well that because they so obviously are. I mean if you allow free love and women to decide their own fates then whats the point of marriage? And if there's no point to marriage then you might as well allow gays to marry and if you let gays marry then you have to allow people to marry animals and if you allow that the whole society comes crashing down.

[donnalee_kiss]

Well then let nobody be able to get married....nope, its gone. No more 'catching' a man, no more 'ownership' relationships, everybody has to be nice or else. Now lets talk about dangerous.....

[stacycat69]

My Intro to Sociology professor made the comment that throughout human history, it has been the Female Sexuality that has been controlled. As if having women act like men sexually would bring the entire society crashing down.

Society still does view womens sexuality as a force. Women have to protect their virginity, they have to "give it up" to someone when they fuck, they have to live with all the repercusions of the sexual act.

This is one of the topics that I will be researching in grad school, and possibly later this year in my research classes.

[prisoner007]

what are you majoring in?

[stacycat69]

Sociology. Specifically, Sociology of sex and gender. I was just going to focus on sexuality, but after reading "The Second Shift" I am interested in gender differences, and how they perpetuate in society.