Archive for Sexuality

Cleaning Up Misconceptions About Sex

It would seem that through defaulting and following a path of least resistance in ascetic practices towards life I have learnt to repress more hedonistic practices with distortions in my thoughts that likely keeps me from achieving a "healthy" balance in regards to sexual health.

Let's do some critical-thinking cleaning…

SE: Sex is dirty.
EP: Sex does seem "dirty" to me when we think about the exchange of bodily fluids and physical bodies of varying shapes and sizes.

SE: Sex is not dirty.
EP: Sex does not seem "dirty" to me when we appreciate it as an act of nature that rationally brought about our own existences.

SE: Sex is healthy.
EP: According to Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny, sex equates with (1) the biologically (at orgasm) rhythmic muscular contractions that produce intense physical sensations followed by rapid relaxation and (2) psychologically, it is a time of intense pleasure (ecstasy) and suspended thought. Considering that, it sounds to me like nature's remedy for life's stresses.

SE: Sex is not healthy.
EP: Sex does not seem healthy to me when performed by those known to have confirmed sexual diseases or by those who develop "unhealthy" addictions to it.

SE: Humans are sexual beings.
EP: Humanity's most basic sexual desire would seem to me like procreation and/or love-making whether done as part of a romantic relationship or not.

SE: Human sexuality is sacred.
EP: According to an article I read, human sexuality does include the significance of a profound intimacy as opposed to the mundane, instinctual mating activity of say a dog.

SE: Sex is a problem to organized religon.
EP: In my estimation, sex acts as a problem to organized religions of implicit Ascetism (self-denial) practices due to a ubiquitous notion of discouraging pre-marital sex whether you claim religious beliefs or not in a "higher authority".

SE: Sex is a problem propagated by the pornographic industry.
EP: In my perception, while the "playboy culture" may have encouraged sex in a hedonistic (self-indulgent) way it doesn't balance the gap…

SE: Sex is thus a problem of two halves.
EP: Sex thus seems to me as a fine balance between respect and pleasure especially when performed as an act of intimacy to portray one's love for another.

SE: Casual sex is irrationally intimate.
EP: Casual sex seems to me to satisfy here-and-now desires in an irrationally impulsive lust relationship.

SE: Serious sex is rationally intimate.
EP: Serious sex seems to me to satisfy genuine honest desires in a rationally romantic love relationship.

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