Vault101 said:
to answer that....
see my problem with the first statement is not just an inability to understand others peoples reasons/motivations (ok we all get that sometimes) but that coupled with some pretty..strange "moral" standards is setting yourself up for disappointment, not saying you can;t have standards but at least trying to understand other people and re-thinking these things is good sometimes, especially if you are finding yourself unsuccessful
that and you think less of people for not having the same moral standards as you...on an issue that is not as cut/dry as you make it out to be (unlike murder or theft)
Understanding and supporting aren't the same things
I really do understand that having any freedom is awesome
But there is such a thing as "too much freedom" and in this context I feel that our culture is at this point right now.
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a decade?.....yeeeeeeaaaah my initial reaction remains the same...I mean WHAT? 2 partners in 10 years is "kind of promiscuous" as you put it? HAHAHAHAHA oh lawd *shakes head* 5 partners in 10 years isn't even *that* bad if your not counting
casual encounters[/quote]
But I am. Casual encounters and one night stands are sexual contacts too.
The very term "casual encounter" is insulting for me
There isn't anything "casual" about sexual relationship, there shouldn't be anything "casual" about it.
But I think this is the argument in which we won't be able to come to some sort of compromise.
[quote/]so you meet a nice girl...but then find out she's been with a few people...then you wouldn't want anything to do with her?...I do hope you only mean that in a relationship context..and not everyday life (dare I ak)[/quote]
Pretty much yes, been there, done that.
I simply cannot build long term romantic relationship with someone who don't share my beliefs on this matter
[quote/]little spiteful dont'cha think?
see I have a problem with mixing sex and morality..it just doesn't make sense to me...I think its absolutely ridiculous to question the moral character of someone based PURELY upon how much sex they have
if you ask me what I think of a girl who sleeps around constantly....well I'd have to know more than that..[i/]sure[/i] I can make some assumptions , which I know is easy to do..we all do that (which may even turn out to be correct) but honestly amount of sex doesn't tell me much....if she's a nice person, if she holds down a job. if she does drugs or steals or anything
quite frankly what we get up to in the bedroom is no ones damn business and not something we should be judged upon
have you had sex? I mean how do you know it will be any worse if shes been with a few people? how do you know if you enter a seriously relationship that she's going to love any less?[/quote]
Yeah, my sister was ignoring me for a week after that dialogue. :/
Really? I need to explain even this?
Ok, "amoral" in sexual discussion means different things than it usually means.
Of course having multiple partners doesn't make you neonazi sympathizer or pedophilia supporter.
Same as having high moral stand about sexual relationship doesn't mean you aren't racist or cannibal.
Moral isn't always moral, and amoral isn't always amoral.
(I don't know how better put this, so I hope you understand what I mean)
Anyway, it is good to expect not to be judged upon, except people are being jugged by other people, based on everything all the time. And same people are judging other people about anything all the time.
Not in a manner of getting pitchforks, torches and lynching someone, no. I mean that ANY information is piece of puzzle, to put together and make a picture of someone in your head. If you find some piece of information that doesn't fit in overall picture, you don't force it into picture and you don't ignore it, you should put it aside for a while- maybe after few more facts, you will find how it fits in.
And of course it isn't no ones business what you do in your bed. UNTIL you're approaching me with romantic intentions. Then it becomes MY GODDAMN BUSINESS, and if I don't like the state of business you won't get past "friend" status. Simple as that.
Is this principle making my life hard? Yes, but I won't drop this only because of some inconveniences.
Hagi said:
I think my instincts and those of the majority of people might be broken...
Just the other day I was walking through town, seeing plenty of females around, and found myself strangely unaroused. Not a single cell in my body was screaming at me to fuck all those women. I just walked there... seeing all those women... and nothing... no enraged lust, no massive erection... I just walked...
And then I got home, opened up the paper, and read this column from a woman complaining about sexual harassment. I mean can you imagine? There she is and this big strong man is proposing sex in the meanest way possible and she's strangely not feeling any lust at all. She should obviously be massively aroused, held back only by her strong moral convictions. But apparently all she felt was anger, how fucked up is that?
One would almost imagine that the 'instincts' you propose merely reflect the actions of a mostly harmless minority and that most people are in fact perfectly capable of enjoying sex responsibly and appropriately without the need for a harsh judgemental morality to counteract the otherwise uncontrollable lusts that plague the depravity that is humankind.
But that can't be... We obviously need to insult people who've had multiple sexual partners in their past by calling them whores and sluts. Without such condemnations everyone would clearly be ruled solely by their animal lusts and society itself would crumble. Thank god we have people like you, ready to pounce on anyone thinking about enjoying sex for the act itself. You sir are the only thing standing between a civilized society and massive depraved orgies in the middle of the street.
Getting a little defensive aren't we >

Instincts can be suppressed by education and culture, true
But in the end of a day they are still there and you cannot get rid of it
P.S.And yes, I consider myself last bastion of morality, thank you for noticing, good sir.