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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.homosexuality
- Subject: Re: Sexuality
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 19:54:35 GMT
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- cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
- > In article <1i003kINNf0j@hp-col.col.hp.com> smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith) writes:
- > >I have sex with my neighbor's wife; we've both consented to it with
- > >each other, no one's twisting my arm or hers; immoral?
- >
- > No, according to the morals of the involved people. In fact, I'd be
- > interested in a logical argument that it is immoral, without resort to the
- > biblebook or other religious dicta.
-
- Because they have committed themselves to their spouses. (I didn't spell that
- out in the original statement, I should have)
-
- > >Hmmmm...that's what I thought it still was; enjoyed responsibly between
- > >married people.
- >
- > Why do they need to be married? Again, please no religion-based
- > arguments, just a logical assertion of what harm is done to the consenting
- > adults or others.
-
- Because if their birth control fails, (assuming they use it) they could
- end up with a baby, that they are not prepared for.
-
- > I don't agree that typical people don't think sex is inherently
- > something negative. Why don't people discuss their sex lives as casually
- > as their golf games? "It's no one else's business?" Please... neither is
- > your golf score, and humans' sex lives are far more important to them than
- > golf (except for Quayle, of course ;-) ).
-
- Because it *is* no one else's buisiness, unless you're *real* close to the
- person you're talking to. You don't see where your sex life is more private
- than your golf score? One of the things said by those who are against
- homosexaulity (and 'excessive' sexuality in general) is that people show
- a lack of respect for sex; and here you are putting people's sex lives on
- the same level as their golf score. If sex were as 'casual' as you make it
- out to be, people wouldn't have such a drastically-worse reaction to rape
- as they do to being robbed. Sex is a deeply personal thing, and not just
- to those who have "religion".
-
- Walter
-
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