[120] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: meeting people
dachurch@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dachurch@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 3 21:39:22 1988
henry says:
>but rather it is sad that people often feel they must ahve
>a SO (and the relationship which, hopefully, accompanies the
>SO) in order to enjoy erotic pursuits.
I'm agree fully with Henry's comment that most people feel an SO is
necessary to do anything erotic. I would also agree that this is a lose, as
it forces many people into relationships they expect to be love which are
really lust, and then they spend some time hurting eachother until they
realize the difference.
It's not that there is something wrong with lust. The problem is that society
has conditioned us to feel that lust is bad, love is good. People who are
nice "make love", not any of the "nastier" phrases available. Sure, ads all
over the place show near naked people pressing bodies against eachother.
But if real people did that then the marketing gimmick wouldn't be there,
since people wouldn't consider it taboo or exciting. Therefore people must
be enticed to smoke and drink and kill but not touch. Seeking pleasure is
fine unless it is sensual pleasure. After all, sex is virtually free, and
if careful safe too. People can't market sex to the general public. So....
Make it evil. Then sell billions of dollars of "sexual" film and pictures.
And keep making sure people think it's evil.
Because if people ever realized they could just "do it", then all those
pictures and films and books would go down the drain, 'cause no one would
by them. And then it wouldn't make the "right" people money. And we
wouldn't want that to happen.
As a result, society has convinced most people that anything more serious than
hugging outside of a "relationship" is bad. And that those people who
believe in separating lust and love are bad, evil, decadent, etc..
Gotta love America. Logical ideas for logical people...
- DC
