06-09-2021, 04:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-09-2021, 04:49 AM by Captain Genet.)
There are some positions in my old posts (especially from Personality Cafe) which now make me cringe:
- Seeing male sexuality as a destructive, barbaric force. In fact, most rapists are driven by anger and desire for power (like the "incel" community shows) and even after castration seek hormones to be able to do the thing again. A healthily socialized man with high libido will seek a high libido wife rather than commit rape. If his wife is not willing, he will use his own hands.
- Seeing sex in general as something that debases a person and distracts from civilized intellectual or cultural pursuits. We "lose" way more time for sleep than for sex. Also, being sexually frustrated warps the mind as shown by 19th century women. Puritanical attitudes won't make a society wholesome, and they would likely make people more interested in porn and prostitution. It's natural for young people to pursue casual sex, and then outgrow it and pursue a long term relationship.
- Genetic determining and looking for genetic engineering as a way to improve public morality. In reality, genetically programmed behaviours are found only in primitive creatures. Tribal warfare is definitely a natural trait of humans, and yet Christianity was able to overcome it not with gene therapies but with ideas. Now we see racism on a way out, also because of ideas and institutional change. Also, genetic modifications without a proper cultural awareness would likely result in parents making their kids pro footballers, supermodels or CEOs rather than idealistic cosmic saints I hope for.
- Seeing male sexuality as a destructive, barbaric force. In fact, most rapists are driven by anger and desire for power (like the "incel" community shows) and even after castration seek hormones to be able to do the thing again. A healthily socialized man with high libido will seek a high libido wife rather than commit rape. If his wife is not willing, he will use his own hands.
- Seeing sex in general as something that debases a person and distracts from civilized intellectual or cultural pursuits. We "lose" way more time for sleep than for sex. Also, being sexually frustrated warps the mind as shown by 19th century women. Puritanical attitudes won't make a society wholesome, and they would likely make people more interested in porn and prostitution. It's natural for young people to pursue casual sex, and then outgrow it and pursue a long term relationship.
- Genetic determining and looking for genetic engineering as a way to improve public morality. In reality, genetically programmed behaviours are found only in primitive creatures. Tribal warfare is definitely a natural trait of humans, and yet Christianity was able to overcome it not with gene therapies but with ideas. Now we see racism on a way out, also because of ideas and institutional change. Also, genetic modifications without a proper cultural awareness would likely result in parents making their kids pro footballers, supermodels or CEOs rather than idealistic cosmic saints I hope for.