DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Here's what fundamentalists have wrong. Many fundamentalists will say "Homosexuality can be cured with prayer and conversion therapy." The Bible never extends this sort of "compassion" to gay people at any point. The Bible explicitly states that people who engage in gay sex should be put to death.
Oh, but
you can "cure" any problem you or anyone else has with
your sexuality by neglecting your sexuality. After all, everyone is supposed to neglect theirs when single.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Whatever. All adults masturbate. Any adult who claims "I don't masturbate." is obviously a smug liar.
Not really. I grew up isolated enough that close to my fourteenth birthday, I had no idea that something like masturbation existed, and then I was taught step by step how it worked by my father. Even that wasn't enough—I spent a lot of time on my own playing mindlessly with my penis, trying to follow his instructions (yes, this means I didn't feel any kind of urge to do it, and wouldn't have done it if my father hadn't told me anything), without feeling anything out of the ordinary. I only found out what all the fuss was about one day, lying face down on my bed, still fully clad, thinking of a certain female classmate I liked a lot. I mean I thought of
her, the way I usually saw her, so fully clad, too. I didn't imagine her in a suggestive pose or anything, since I didn't know there was such a thing. Had I been asked, I might have said I'd like to see her breasts (breasts have looked beautiful to me since my early childhood, obviously long before they could sexually arouse me), but hers didn't even seem to be fully developed yet, so I didn't pay them much attention. I didn't imagine her physically touching me, let alone making any sexual motions, as I had no idea what these looked like. What I did was rock absent-mindedly, and then began to feel the strange warmth of what became my first orgasm.
It's pretty easy to imagine an alternate timeline in which I never found out there was such thing as sexual pleasure in my whole life. My parents could simply have never mentioned sex in my presence, and sent me to a sex-segregated school. I could have lived in a more conservative society, and people could keep acting like they can't talk about sex in front of me because "there are children present" (I heard a classmate say that, referring clearly to me, but not addressing me, when we were about seventeen and someone else in the conversation mentioned something more or less sexual), even in my adulthood. Women would tend to leave me alone, like in real life, and there'd probably be many more barriers for me to enter spaces where I could meet them, so I'd basically forget they exist and live like a monk, without thinking there's anything special about it.
But this is about
male masturbation. History shows women's sexuality is even easier to suppress. Many go their entire lives, even bearing children, without experiencing a single orgasm, and yet more do get an orgasm once in a while, but can't be bothered to masturbate, because it doesn't seem worth their trouble. Hostile attitudes to sex or to female sexuality help them a lot forgo sexual pleasure. So does lack of hygiene (modern standards were an inconceivable luxury for almost everyone for most of history) and being forced to marry men they don't like that much, and who may abuse them.
So there are plenty of reasons you can
admit you don't masturbate—and probably be laughed at—with not exactly any smugness.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Abortion: I honestly don't know where the "God hates abortion." mentality comes from. The Bible never speaks out against abortion at any point. In fact, Ancient Israelite women were often forced to have abortions when they were suspected of adultery, but no hard evidence for said adultery was found.
Infanticide was common, too, and few people ever batted an eyelid at it.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Consent: I honestly couldn't find anything in the Bible about sexual consent. The Bible makes it clear that any man who rapes a woman who is married to another man is worthy of death, but the Bible doesn't seem to care about consent in other circumstances. For example, marital rape is never mentioned.
Women were property, so there was no such thing as
their consent. Rape was a crime against their fathers' or husbands' property. Marital rape was a contradiction in terms.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Other: The Bible also says that a woman is unclean when she is on her period. Any man who comes into contact with her must wash himself afterwards. The Bible also says that men with crushed testicles may not become preachers. I'm not sure why.
I guess it took
balls to preach.
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20 Jul 2018, 2:10 pm
