The S-Word

It's fun that something so necessary has become so taboo in our society. I know there are more repressed societies than the United States, but still of all things to be a forbidden idea, you wouldn't think sex would be one of them. I can't understand what is so bad about it unless you still believe in puritan values, and really as Henry Mencken put it, "Puritanism is the haunting fear that somebody somewhere may be happy." I can't imagine that this fear of sex is much more than either a shame of feeling good or a hang over of the early church with their fear of women. There are plenty of other societies that embrace sex and fertility as a communion with the divine, or at least don't think much past it's a good time. I understand that there's more than just the physical to consider when it comes to sex. There's pregnancy and STDs to consider, along with the crazy things it can do to your hormones, but I hardly thing that if I decide I want to have sex before there is a ring on my finger that I'm going to hell.

I can understand that before birth control the whole fact that you could get knocked up was a big problem for women when it came to sex, but now with modern science I don't think there's a whole lot of excuses. Yes, I believe you should care about someone before you have sex with them because it's giving over a part of yourself to someone else, but I don't think any part of my immortal soul is in danger for feeling that way. Sex has never presented itself as a moral issue for me. It's a personal issue, and I don't see that changing no matter how many people tell me that my soul is in jeopardy. What if there is no afterlife anyway? I'd rather go to hell having experienced all that life has to offer than go to heaven to imagine all that I missed. I must say if I had made a bucket list, a list of things to do before I die, have sex would have definitely been high up on that list

Truly, if god hated sex so much, why would he have made it the only way for so many species to continue living? Truly either you have to believe there is a loving god who wants us to procreate and be happy, or god hates us thought we were a mistake and decided we all should die out and thus made sex a sin. Personally I'm more willing to believe the first.
-Lia