Topic: Society & Sex - page 2. (Read 2118 times)

The mass acceptance of Freud's thought has done a lot of damage. It has led people to think of sexual desire in terms of sexual need. Notice a sexual desire can be controlled, but a sexual need is a need.. like food and shelter etc.

Freud burrowed down below the conscious person, what he termed the Ego, to uncover what he called the Id. the Id was our natural self, and the ego was just our conflict between that natural self and society, which he in turn called the super-ego. Following Marx, Freud thought that all morality and culture was arbitrary, and further, that it represented the control and repression of our natural instincts. Now think of Freud's ideas infecting the rest of the planet.

I think there is an element of truth in Freud [the repression of sex that came with Protestant and puritan countries], but the problem comes when it is itself elevated in an ideology. Today people think it is their right to act on their sexual impulses. they see this as more fundamental [more real] than the moral constraints which would otherwise hold them back.

We think of ourselves as liberated today, and part of that liberation is our sexuality. At the public and intellectual levels of life, the official line is we should all be out and proud about our sexuality in order to live a happy and fulfilling life. This orthodoxy will only begin to be questioned in a generation's time when the wheels start to fall off.

So what promotes pornography?
Pseudo-science - the real you is the biological one.
Economics - It's great for the market and consumption...sex sells.
Politics - No better way to control a population than dumb it down and get it addicted.
Human nature - concupisence

Because it's funny

Sex sells and in a capitalist society, selling is how things work. I have no problem with people sleeping around. It is their life. If they were responsible enough, then they'd spare future sexual partners STIs. If not, then they'll suffer eventually.

Rather have people freely having sex than them going around raping others. Just look at repressive countries, the locals usually end up targeting migrant workers to bust their load... And those societies are not even "liberated" as the US and Europe. Our country send plenty of workers abroad. Years ago one got abducted while waiting for a taxi. And he's a guy. He was found days later in the desert (where abuse victims are often dumped to die), unconscious, badly beaten and raped.

Rich countries tend to do more sex since they're educated in sex rather than in poor countries. Since poor countries can't fund to have sex education making them conservative about their sex life.