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Chan790

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47. I'm going to summarize my opinions as "consent is awesome"
Sat Jan 26, 2013, 11:14 AM
Jan 2013

Monogamy is also awesome if that's what you're into. (I'm not, but different strokes for different folks.) Monogamous people! Make more time for love with your committed life-partners, you won't regret it.

That would be a "no" on gang rape. You didn't ask, but lets volunteer further that I'm opposed to statutory rape even where the victimized party is consenting.

"Why not, as long as both or more partners are consenting." on random sex with strangers.

"I think that might be unsanitary, but sex is often dirty and unsanitary" on sex in the streets. If you don't want an audience, you should probably find a room or at-least a dark alley though.

You're thinking obscenity and voyeurism...it ceases to be shocking or titillating when it's commonplace. I have issues with FCC decency standards...I think they should be loosened on nudity and sex and tightened on violence.

Even Antonin Scalia, that arbiter of morality from the bench, supports the rights of orgies between consenting parties. Who am I to disagree?

Condoms? For god-sakes use condoms! Do you really think we need more live-births? Further, prophylaxis protects against disease.

STDs are bad: most are treatable, others manageable. In the end, you're responsible for your own sexual health. I get tested regularly, all sexually-active adults whether monogamous or polyamorous or even casually-promiscuous should be getting tested regularly.

One begins at the age one wants to, it is all about consent. For that matter one can quit whenever one wants to, or for that matter, abstain if they so choose...this is after-all about consent. Nobody is forcing anybody to partake; I'm arguing for a loosening of sexual morality saying that I think we'd be a happier, less violence-obsessed culture if there were a little more fulfilling rewarding sex going on.

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My fiancee did consular work for a while. You'd be amazed how frequent this is Recursion Jan 2013 #1
Yes, because there is no point in doing anything until you've had sex. Sheldon Cooper Jan 2013 #2
There certainly is no point in GETTING MARRIED until you have Taverner Jan 2013 #4
I know couples who got married without sex. Sheldon Cooper Jan 2013 #5
Goody goody for them. They aren't the norm, Taverner Jan 2013 #8
So what. Sheldon Cooper Jan 2013 #16
No - but, the world does revolve around Taverner and his morals/ethics. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #24
Go back under that rock Taverner Jan 2013 #27
... you keep showing us your true ones. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #30
Which are balls of brass, steel and clay! Taverner Jan 2013 #33
lol Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #45
And so do you.... Taverner Jan 2013 #36
Actually, it does Taverner Jan 2013 #26
*yawn* Sheldon Cooper Jan 2013 #28
"Savage" - what is a "Savage"? Taverner Jan 2013 #29
"Humpin' and pumpin' is not Sheldon's strong suit." SecularMotion Jan 2013 #46
I would argue that it should. Chan790 Jan 2013 #31
do you consider gang rape to be sex? are you -at all- selective in this type of sex that you are Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #42
I'm going to summarize my opinions as "consent is awesome" Chan790 Jan 2013 #47
One begins at the age one wants to ... Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #49
No. n/t Chan790 Jan 2013 #50
I agree with you, Taverner. In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #3
it's not my place to judge what someone else does with their body fizzgig Jan 2013 #6
+1 Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #43
At 18 it was a burden hack89 Jan 2013 #7
Virginity is not a flaw, it's a choice. dawg Jan 2013 #9
No but to potential suitors, it should be viewed as a flaw Taverner Jan 2013 #10
If everyone felt that way, the human race would have died out years ago. dawg Jan 2013 #11
You're so deep pintobean Jan 2013 #13
Wow ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2013 #19
I never had a problem with dating virgins... Chan790 Jan 2013 #32
Thank you. Perhaps if 840high Jan 2013 #37
That's the advice I gave my children. Sekhmets Daughter Jan 2013 #12
Camping, travelling and sex flying rabbit Jan 2013 #14
Add the first thing and the third... Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #22
I once read that... pipi_k Jan 2013 #23
while i agree that virginity is not a value, i dont think its a flaw either La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2013 #15
How many of the people who don't move in together prior to marriage.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2013 #21
i think they controlled for religiousity, but i could be wrong La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2013 #34
Those numbers were from flawed studies Taverner Jan 2013 #25
nope the study i am thinking about is not a think tank study La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2013 #35
I have a family 840high Jan 2013 #39
I disagree. It is neither. Moondog Jan 2013 #17
thread winner. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2013 #51
I do believe people should live together before marriage ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jan 2013 #18
What kind of virginity????? Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #20
It's neither Tobin S. Jan 2013 #38
You, Taverner, are a piece of work. nolabear Jan 2013 #40
I'd say it isn't inherently either fishwax Jan 2013 #41
Is virginity the original sin? Ptah Jan 2013 #44
If you do a deconstructionist analysis of the Judeo-Christian mythology... Chan790 Jan 2013 #48
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