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General Discussion / Re: Things you wish existed
« on: October 06, 2013, 05:43:29 pm »A world where people don't think sex is such a big deal.This would be a good thing.
Don't get me wrong it's pretty great and all, but is it really so much better than even other human bodily functions? Eating, stretching muscles, and sleeping are all also pretty fucking great. And all are definitely on a comparable level to sexytimesthings, since the first and third take priority a decent amount of the time, and the second is a similarly physically gratifying feeling. And the social bonding aspect is only significant compared to other social activities because of the importance placed upon sex by society.
And the importance society places on sex is self-reinforcing. It is propegated because it already exists strongly, so people conform to it and in doing so make it continue to exist. It's not like it's even critical for most people to have sex for reprofuction,
If people didn't think sex was such a big deal, things would be in general better. Sex crimes would decrease since it would not be so strongly associated with power; and correspondingly, victims of sex crimes would not be as affected by it because there's less connotations of shame/guilt about it, as well as the aforementioned diminished power aspect.
Overall I can't think of a reason it would not be an improvement.