Talking to myself again

[tienelle]

Showed up at the CTS meeting just before it finished. Then, showed up at GamesEvening just before it finished. Now, as I feel I ought to babysit this code compiling (the last attempt failed. I have no idea how, as it decided to put a very large log file on the already-strained /var partition, and I foolishly decided "Everything will be fine" and

Comments

[naath]

I believe G-d's objections to randomly shagging people is that *obviously* you *need to know* who the father is, because we are *obviously* patriachal and patrilineal (even though the Jews *aren't*) and the father is the breadwinner and *obviously* doesn't want to care for someoneelse's (shudder) children.

This is where all shit about women being the property of men comes from... men *haveing* to know who fathered the stupid brats.

And this explanation is dumb. Not least because these days we can test for paternity.

Absolutely all other possible objections are in general bunk (even they are correct in the specific case that involves you), because they apply differently in different cases - for instance some people don't care that they could get pregnant by one of the random men. And you can't apply 'I don't want to have random sex because...' to anyone else, though you are quite free to not have any sex.

Prostitution: Why is it bad (other than in the youcouldgetillorpregnant sense, which I'm fairly sure people consider before going into the buisness)? What does it do that's bad? Presuming that is that all prostitutes want to be prostitutes.

[tienelle]

The explanation you give is, as you note, rather silly. I'm assuming the position's proponents have a better explanation, even if this is their real reason.

Prostitution is the worst case of casual sex, which I've given an incoherent explanation of my problems with.

[naath]

It happens to be the actuall reported reason for the seclusion of women in many societies (that they absolutely *must* be faithfull, because the property is inherited by the son of the father).
People tend to come up with stupid arguments about 'virtue' and how great it is, but these people are mostely the men who are locking their women up and not letting them see anyone.

And it's a *really* *really* stupid reasons. I mean, for a start, isn't it much much easier to know who the mother of a child is than a father? Why can't stuff be matrilineal?