Human sexuality: What is all the Hoopla, anyway?
Why, in this day, with all the technological advances and
access to so much information, are we still so culturally
backwards?
Why do we take on the anxieties of the buttoned-down
puritanical in this Land-of-the-Barely-Free? It's as if the
Sexual Revolution never took place. Being free with one's
body isn't about screwing with abandon; it's about being in
touch enough to know what you want and to respect your
desires and needs responsibly.
We feel what we feel, and humans possess desire, love,
lust, longing, romance, affection, passion, ...all deeply
beautiful things, until the human mind injected fear and
guilt and loathing and self-consciousness and shame into
the equation. Repression and denial are horrible twists
on otherwise fine emotions.
One of the very few 'bests' of this squalid human existence,
and we manage to screw that up too.
None of this to say that some normal restraint and con-
sideration isn't required in the handling of the human heart
and body...but, c'mon, let's get real.
So, we're born not feeling any of the problems; only the
freeing impulses and the desire to pursue them.
And along comes a spider...to fill us with their own special
poison, what they call 'sin,' and we're suddenly trapped in
fear, questioning and refusing our own bodies, our own
drives. Our own psyche. Our own person.
It's criminal.
And it's all within our power to change it, if only for ourselves.
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