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[zdover]

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[rabbixkillyou]

"...something based so heavily in morality, that you can’t judge one person’s experience or decisions by another’s"

I've been thinking about this since I read it this afternoon.
I don't want this to shock you but I'm pretty sure it doesn't make sense.

[zdover]

I think we agree

[circumgoy]

You put your abstinence up against my butt rape, and we'll see who's fully protected from STDs.

I'm going to take the bait and call her "traditional." Hiss!

[grosely_clerx]

Yeah, she obviously went to a teen abstinence rally or something over the weekend. This is exactly the kind of shallow crap they pump teenagers full of.

Also, I like the preamble that you shouldn't talk about sex, which presages the sermon about sex.

"Call me traditional, but I think we should learn about sex the old-fashioned way - skittishly pantomiming intercourse with a mutually shamed spouse, under the tutelage of the sacred pillow-crochetings."

Re: I'm going to take the bait and call her "traditional." Hiss!

[grosely_clerx]

Wait a second. Why am I responding to this? This is the same silly dross the Crimson White publishes every year. Much more notable is the fact that CW articles are like children's and teenybopper movies - the target audience rotates out so often that they can just recycle the same ol' hosewater over and again, and no one will be the wiser. But even that's not really notable.

Re: I'm going to take the bait and call her "traditional." Hiss!

[diamondduste]

Agreed. I don't know how many times I've seen a "sex column" pop up in the CW only for half the campus to be offended, and the other half of the campus to be bored by it/ignore it completely.

Re: I'm going to take the bait and call her "traditional." Hiss!

[cliched]

I was pumped full of that stuff when I was a teenager. To be honest, I'm basically okay with scaring 15 year olds into not having sex.

But I think the most glaring error in her reasoning is that she doesn't seem to recognize that there can be sex in a relationship somewhere between one night stands and marriage. I am not married, but I certainly do not worry about being, ahem, "humped and dumped" or "ding-dong-ditched."

Also, you can get pregnant or get an STD even if you're married.

unholy, impure, bodily nonsense

[flupiajo]

Nix Megan Nix! Nix Megan Nix! All of your comments, esp. the phrase 'sacred pillow-crochetings,' really hit a funny bone for me. Thanks, Zac's friends.

[robertdot]

If we avoid things that potentially cause emotional or physical harm due to fear, here are a few things we wouldn't have now:

1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Relationships (of any kind, I think, but especially romantic)
4. Fire
5. Electricity
6. Automobiles
7. Air Planes
8. Sports
9. Music
10. Everything else that makes life interesting, enjoyable, or easy
11. Oh, yeah, and sex

Obviously, if we did nothing risky, humans would have died out a long time ago. If we happened to survive the lack of procreation, we'd certainly be a boring, stressed, wretched bunch of creatures.

If we fear things that potentially cause emotional or physical harm, here are a few things we may end up with:

1. Christianity as Fire Insurance
2. Pascal's Wager
3. More fear
4. More emotional harm
5. More physical harm

[grosely_clerx]

How about religion in general? I've seen more than a little emotional harm there, my friend. And I hear about physical harm on the news.

[robertdot]

I was aiming at the writer of the article. I would have used more generalized terms if I were aiming at more people, though I certainly agree with you.

[grosely_clerx]

DUDE I WAS JUST HELPING YOU OUT