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Sex / Life / Religion Looking for Something To Do Before Heading To the Block Party Today?
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:24 AM
You could catch a lecture...
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I got no problems with people choosing to wait till marriage, just don't try to force those views on others.
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@11: Ha! Kinda sounds like an at least possibly interesting lecture though. The sticky wicket, of course, is that while ACTUAL chastity and celibacy may have real social utility in some cases, false claims of chastity and celibacy are much more common and are socially detrimental rather than useful. Better to just 'fess up to being a horny fornicator like the rest of us!
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@ 6: It's important to keep an open mind. But I don't want to be so open-minded that my brain falls out.
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I'm in favor of religious types fucking around as much as they possibly can (while using birth control!) because that would leave them with less time on their hands to godbother me. Also, it might make them a little bit less uptight.
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@16: 'godbother'. Wonderful. Your coinage? With your permission, I will adopt it and promote its use.
I will not, however, be promoting celibacy and chastity. Quite enough of that nonsense in the world, come to think of it.
I will not, however, be promoting celibacy and chastity. Quite enough of that nonsense in the world, come to think of it.
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Man, I've always loved that there's a little yellow house on 15th where, if you're looking for a swami, there one is. That place serves as a reminder of the 15th that used to be way back in the late 60s and early 70s, when the aspiring classes had fled the top of the hill for the suburbs, leaving the neighborhood full of empty old houses for hippies to fill with communes.
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@18: Well it's new to me, O unregistered one. At any rate, I am grateful to have it added to my vocabulary.
Wish there were a juicier post today to respond to, though. I have more time on Sundays for SLOG-threading than during the week. Oh well, I'm out. Happy afternoon, everyone.
Wish there were a juicier post today to respond to, though. I have more time on Sundays for SLOG-threading than during the week. Oh well, I'm out. Happy afternoon, everyone.
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A lecture putting celibacy and chastity into a utilitarian perspective? That sounds positively enrapturing! I'll be there!
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@21, it's much more commonly used in noun form, as "God botherer". UK and Australia; not often seen in the US.
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I'm 58. Started regular sex at 12. Came out gay at 19. Then starting at 26, I spent the next 11 years having Zero sex. Zero. OK a few masturbations, but only a few in over a decade. At 37, I started having sex again (knowing what is "safer"). So... so far... 11 years of no-sex and 35 years of sex (not counting the prepubescent years). Did I learn a lot in those no-sex years? Yes, I did. Was what I learned from the celibacy? Some of it. People choose to live in all kinds of ways. We each do what we need... ultimately. Why judge?
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When I see the word "utility", I automatically think of hardware stores. Any chance this is a hands-on workshop on how to utilise ropes, chains, and metal rings to enforce chastity?
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@15. Yes.
A friend of mine recently posted a Rochefoucauld quote:
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fan fires."
Totally read it as "Abstinence..." and thought, "why did so many people 'like' this?!
A friend of mine recently posted a Rochefoucauld quote:
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fan fires."
Totally read it as "Abstinence..." and thought, "why did so many people 'like' this?!
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My Pomerainian has had diarrhea all weekend, so I had to miss the lecture. Otherwise, I would have been right there in the pew across from the Savages.
Do give us a full recap, won't you Dan?
Do give us a full recap, won't you Dan?
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Its really just a shame how bad you're edumacation system is down there in the grand ol' US of A.
There's an "F" in futility.
There's an "F" in futility.
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I don't think it's a Christian church BTW...
Vedanta "Society"
"Harmony of Faihs"
Maybe it did start out as Futility?
Vedanta "Society"
"Harmony of Faihs"
Maybe it did start out as Futility?
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