Premarital Sex
As you may have read in my history article, my school routinely made us listen to teachers and speakers tell us why sex was a bad thing. Now, if you're a Christian proponent of the "no premarital sex" stance, I've probably just triggered you to say, "We don't think that sex is bad! We think that it's beautiful; that's why we want to save it until marriage."Sadly, this argument is purely subjective. There is no more objective beauty in sex than there is in radioactive decay. Furthermore, if something is beautiful, why restrain it? If sex is so beautiful, why not encourage people to practice it for enjoyment, as long as they do so safely and with someone they trust? Why such enormous restrictions on it (the Catholic Church doesn't even let married couples have sex for purposes other than procreation!)? Sex isn't inherently special. I'm sure that I've offended probably quite a few of you out there with that statement. I'm sorry, but there's something that you must realize: Sex is entirely relative. It's special when you make it special, and only then. If you think sex is special and that it should be saved for marriage, you're ri
Since the humanist moral code is completely unencumbered with issues like one's "closeness to God," it includes no such prohibitions against physical pleasure. Humanism only sees wrong where someone else's rights are being violated through an action. If two adults willfully consent to have sex, whose rights are being violated? Who are they hurting? Themselves, by risking STD transmission? This is a risk they've both acknowledged, accepted and, hopefully, minimized, by using protection. Also, where is the immorality in masturbation? Who gets hurt if some guy jerks off in his room? Whose rights are being violated? ght. If I think sex is something not particularly special, unless I want it to be, and that I should be able to do it with whomever I desire (provided they consent, of course), I'm right. The current Catholic view that sex is something sacred is spawned from the traditional Puritanical view that it is simply evil. The Catholic Church knew that no one would take them seriously if they kept with the "sex is evil" way of thinking, so they switched to "sex is so sacred that no one can have it unless we say you can." Both
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