Nov 20, 2011 [b]: Nudity comes to Arab Spring (NSFW)

[Undertoad]

Sex is really bad. It leads us to disease, death, unwanted pregnancy and all sorts of horrible outcomes. But in our lizard brains, it has kept our species going for 200,000 years... before civilization of any kind.

At some point we noticed that all this sex was really horrible, and that it was leading to pregnancy (we had to figure that out).

So when we applied civilization to it, we made up all sorts of nonsense rules; such as if a man finds a woman attractive he cannot just pull out his weenie. (He must instead text a picture of his weenie to her.)

Along the way it was attached to religion, because religion was how we passed along information, and how we socialized the youths not to be pulling out their weenies all the time.

[CaliforniaMama]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Sex is really bad. It leads us to disease, death, unwanted pregnancy and all sorts of horrible outcomes. But in our lizard brains, it has kept our species going for 200,000 years... before civilization of any kind.

At some point we noticed that all this sex was really horrible, and that it was leading to pregnancy (we had to figure that out).

So when we applied civilization to it, we made up all sorts of nonsense rules; such as if a man finds a woman attractive he cannot just pull out his weenie. (He must instead text a picture of his weenie to her.)

Along the way it was attached to religion, because religion was how we passed along information, and how we socialized the youths not to be pulling out their weenies all the time.

The thing about sex is that it affects our bodies and minds in ways we are just beginning to understand.

When we have sex with someone, we are physiologically bonding with them. Our bodies, on a cellular level, are changing and being influenced by the the other person's physiology. We are attaching in body and in mind (and spiritually, some say).

When we then separate from that person, we are causing physical and psychic trauma to ourselves. Our cellular being is experiencing loss of that other being, as is our mind, whether we realize it or not.

Back in the 80's, a friend was getting a degree in physics. One of the tidbits of science that he shared was that when we are within a certain physical proximity of another person there is a physical exchange of ions.

We are, literally, physically influenced by the people we hang out with, for better or for worse.

This is what makes hanging out with the wrong friends so dangerous. We are not only influenced by what they say and how they act, but also by their physical presence.