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Anthony's avatar

It says a lot about the moral core of the West, and of the medical industry in particular, that after lockdowns, mask mandates and forced vaccinations, stopping gay sex orgies or even criticizing promiscuous sex is too much.

I don't blame the "gay lifestyle" or anything like that, I blame our culture's worship of sexual pleasure and our refusal to put boundaries on sexual indulgence.

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Brian Villanueva's avatar

Anthony, right on the money! Once you go down the road of believing that the purpose of society is maximal individual pleasure, it becomes impossible to set any boundaries around sexual behavior.

In fact, if "maximal individual autonomy" is the purpose of your society, it's actually impossible to define any shared moral or ethical standards, or any form of "the common good" at all, because any rule you define may someone's personal pleasure and autonomy, so the rule must fall.

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Chana Goanna's avatar

Omg, THIS!!! The cultural message is that our overarching purpose in life is to cater to our genitalia. Every day we move closer to the unintentional prophecy of Idiocracy.

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Anthony's avatar

When I read Brave New World in college, I and the other students didn't understand its satirical portrayal of shallow and dehumanizing sex. It had already become normalized in movies and media.

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