Poll: Why is sex such a fobidden topic?

[Ironic]

Biologically speaking, sexual "readiness" is not confined to being 16/18/21, it's different for everyone, and so therefore and religious or social law, imposed on the masses is just a minimum age you must be for "justice" to take it's course if there is an offender on the loose, or the victim is under-age.

I believe that when you are emotionally, physically and spiritually ready for sex, then it is up to you as to how, who with and when you do it, but you must adhere to your societies rules and boundaries, for your, and your partner's sake.

Sex is in the same grey area as morality, you can't constrain impulses by law, it's different for everyone, personal morality is all we have to govern our bodily responses at the end of the day, any punishment present by society is merely a deterrent to those who would do such things, and a way to keep order amongst a large group of individual people.

So to answer your question, sex in many cultures and places is a taboo, because it is an extremity of emotional and physical responses, much like rage. To protect the society itself, these must be tempered in some way, otherwise tensions between people build, and violence happens. This can be through religious or lawful control, but is a control nonetheless.

 

[Radelaide]

THE DEVIL, THE DEVIL'S WORK I TELL YOU!

The Testes are CLEARLY the fruit Adam and Eve ate at Eden, THEY ARE CURSED!

Sex consumes time that could be spent praying, working or living full and righteous lifes!

ect.

Dude... What? I think I get the point you're trying to make... but seriously?

No...not seriously. Come on, people who belive that stuff don't use the internet.

DISCLAIMER: By "people who belive that stuff", I do not mean Christians or Religious people of any kind, I mean people who will scream this stuff at you in the street

I was making a different point.

Oh? Sorry. Elaborate, please

Heh, I'll tell you when I can remember

 

[Ironic]

First. I believe he meant a married man and woman, not swinging.

Second. Mobius, on the whole "anal" thing. Too much fucking information, bro. I'm all for expressing your love however you want, but... really, man, I didn't want to know that.

First, I KNOW he meant between a SINGLE Husband and a SINGLE Wife, not between TWO Couples, but I was poking fun at him for being narrow-minded and Conformist.

As for the second, I will admit to being one of those people that said Eww when one of my friends on the ship brought it up, but being an open-minded individual I tried it and LOVED IT. My question was a (to me, at least) natural extension of this topic. If Sex is Taboo, Anal Sex is like a Nuclear Wasteland. At least, among people who aren't sailors...

I was just wondering why, and if anyone had tried it and disliked it, or if everyone was just giving a knee-jerk Eww reaction.

I have only met one person who honestly "Didn't Like it." Everyone else just didn't like the IDEA of it...

Lol man, I agree. When it comes down to our bodies, most people have the reaction of "The less i know, the better." Anal sex for guys isn't gay unless they're getting it off a guy, I mean, i don't really like the idea of it for myself personally, as i'd like to maintain some sort of bowel control when im significantly older, but, whatever floats your boat i guess. if you think about it rationally. Or, to use my favourite quote from Harold & Kumar when the security guard makes the "terrorists" open wide :/

Spoiler

Kumar : "But, doesn't us sucking your dick, make you gay"
Big Bob: "NO FUCKING WAY! You fucking terrorist fucking fag, I'm not the one with a dick in my mouth, so im not fucking gay, so get ready for your cock-meat sandwich you fag or im going to beat your ass.

Irony-five!

 

[mmmmmonkey]

I live by the belief that if we weren't meant to have sex, God wouldn't have given us...facilities.

Actually I don't believe in God

If I did I'd then go on to ponder that maybe God changed his mind, and realised he'd made a mistake, and gave us HIV


In reality I just think extreme liberalists are the lowest form of life.

 

[sumanoskae]

Sex is perfectly fine within two consenting and informed parties, and even if both parties are uninformed its not like its some kind of cardinal sin, a bad mistake with potentially life ruining results?, yes but as long as its consensual its not unmoral, and some people see it as a way of expressing affection

 

[ExaltedK9]

Sex is entirely rational, between married couples.

So you are for Wife swapping parties? What if some fat ugly woman wants me when I have a woman with a perfect body? That sounds DISGUSTING and not cool in my book.

I believe that Sex is perfectly fine between consenting individuals who understand that sex is meant to make a relationship BETTER, not just make a relationship. (I have nothing against casual Sex, it just isn't my cup of tea.)

Also, I am GLAD I have made love to my girlfriend before marriage, as it is the only way I know my love for her is unconditional, and that I am not rushing into marriage simply to get sex, as I have seen some people do...

Personally, I do not see what the big stigma is surrounding Anal sex. My girlfriend and I BOTH enjoy it with each other frequently.

Have any of you who disdain it ever actually TRIED it, or do you just assume it is gross?

(If you two take PROPER care of yourselves, there is nothing unsanitary about it at all.)

Really...I could've gone all day without hearing that.

Look, that was just my opinion, without getting into deep discussion about it. it was ONE sentence. Dammit, stop quoting me for it!

 

[Cekil1]

Good points here and sex IS perfectly natural. What I wanna know is where the hatred of virgins comes from.

 

[Danman1]

This is both an intellectual discussion and a test to see how long before i get put on probation for this but i have to ask

Why is sex such a "cover your eyes and ears for fear of them melting" kind of topic? In movies, games, and even books rate sex as an object to be censored more then violence or anykind of unnatural drug. This is the part that complexes me, sex is a natural part of human life. It is required for survival of a species and for people to evolve to higher more adaptable states. Its way more natural then any form of decapitation or choking someone with a bag. But interestingly extream violence is more acceptable then sex is. Maybe i'm viewing this a little to practically but honestly who has NEVER been to a porn site.

I'm sick and tired of my school, my news, my everything ready to throw down the hammer on any kind of sexual conduct because they fear it will corrupt us..... I'm sorry but i can tell you 45 ways to effectivly torture someone, i've seen on the news that thousands were killed because of extreamists and i can cuss with the best of them and they fear that something as basic as sex will corrupt me? maybe (i am not trying to bash anything) if people put their misunderstood bible beliefs down (again not trying to bash anything if you really have a problem with this reference send me a message don't off-topic this discussion with a religious war) and their bandwagon politics away we can finally put an end to this forbidden fascination and satanization (probably not a word but you get it) of sex.


I think you meen bastardization. I completely agree with you though.

p.s this might have been a topic before i missed it so i want to talk about it

 

[jakefongloo221]

...Sex is a forbidden topic?

Really?

Last night I flicked on the TV at 11 due to being too away. For every ten channels, at least three were playing something specifically about sex. Not, with sex in like South Park or something, but shows like 'Sexcetera' or 'Naked News' or crap like that.

Sex isn't really forbidden to people who are considered old enough to actually do it; hence the watershed. I don't think there's something entirely wrong about taking precautions so that children do not become exposed to sex age seven. Hell, I knew about sex and discovered porn age eight thanks to a random porn-mag in an abandoned back-garden and all I did was laugh my ass off.

So yeah, I don't believe sex really is a forbidden topic. People talk about it all the time, TV constantly flaunts it in front of us (example; 'Scrubs', at least one sex-scene and ten sexual references an episode), so why do you consider it a forbidden topic? Last thing I checked, decapitation was on the watershed too. You could make the arguement that one is worse than the other, but the censorship, from my experience, is aimed at people often younger than the age of consent. What's wrong with that?

People are inevitably exposed to sex due to the fact that all cultures, to some degree, are obsessed about sex. As you said it's a natural want, need, and requirement to continue the species. There's nothing wrong with censoring vivid sex-scenes from before the watershed. I'd say sex is rather liberal; pretty much every film makes at least some jibe toward a sexual joke, why do they have to be overt? People are so concerned about censorship ruining the world, but why would we be any better off having sex-scenes at 4pm?

I'm not talking about porn or any kind of reasearch and publishing spacifically about sex i'm talking about how our country (as it seems) berates sex in anything not spacifically focused on it (shall i bring up the mass effect fiasco??)