Society's obsession with sex

I am in agreement with you here. I don't want to hear about other people's sex lives, or want it to be in my face like a bunch of animals at a F farm....
No class or dignity or mystery there.

 

I can believe the human obsession with sex very well. However, the extent of how we gave into it has nothing to do with healthy natural behaviour. Our overindulgence in using all the freedom you've got and marketing the shit out of everything that can make a profit has been eating away from our common sense. What do people for instance really expect to happen to their kids and next generation when it is normal for society to market sexy short skirts to 10-12 year old girls?? This is only a little example of it but one that has big impact in the long run.

By the way, I find it curious some people overreact to the OP as if he is saying indulging in sex or sexual interests are crazy or abnormal. There is clearly a difference in indulging in and being obsessed with something.

 

That's true. But the fascination, or obsession with sex go hand in hand with the instinct to complete the act.

 

Nothing wrong by default with either of those things. Although of course the word obsession implies a somewhat overly strong fascination The thing that I have the most of a problem with is this:

They are and it is something else than just having a healthy fascination for sex.

 

Idk... I agree with a lot of that... but the one thing that I think constantly on places like this (but by far, not just here by any means), is that by the way some people act and talk- you would think they just discovered sex. Which would be fine if these people were teenagers or 20, 21 whatever years of age..but sadly I am talking way more of people in late 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, etc.--- Idk, kinda like it's some new, novel, or daring idea? Which I just find rather immature but to each their own I suppose. (and really I'm just a grumpy old person) <---- but yea, I find it rather off-putting when I see men in their 40's, 50's, whatever acting like they discovered some new, counter-culture idea....


(oh and just one note on this... it's by far not that i'm uncomfortable w sex. I've had more of it than most people I know. I suppose I just don't find the need to talk, or brag or act coo it.Sex to me is just another thing of life... like breathing, meditation, eating, etc.)

 

This thread has raised my opinion of hipforums. From the main page you would think this was a sex site.

 

Lotsa losers hang out in some of the forums. I sometimes wonder about what sort of person makes countless posts on sex forums online and how they have time to actually be performing those acts... like if they are teenagers or losers who can't get any or sex addicts or what they are, but yea... I don't waste too much time thinking about it.

 

I see what you mean.

 

Sometimes adults can act like a bunch of silly teenagers...

 

I certainly see you free me and moonglow181 were saying about making sex more private. I mean I'm not saying I'd like things to be victorian, but like when you are just hanging out and you have to listen to people medically ramble about their sex lives, it sort of takes some of the allure out of it.

I mean don't get me wrong. I am pretty sexually open. I don't mind running around naked at festivals or doing kinky shit, but I don't see why everyone has the need to get together and talk about their sex lives in great detail and dental dam this and lube that and whatever. Like just have sex. There's no need to let everyone know you're having/not having sex. Either one of them are just a cry for (sexual) attention.

 

This is kinda hitting on something that I thought of after I posted in this thread and went away and did other stuff for a while. I started thinking that one very important reason that I don't like to really talk about sex much- it's not that I wouldn't answer a question if someone asked me or wouldn't mention it at all, but just don't see the need really to talk about it. And on top of it being just kinda tacky... it also has to do with, in order to talk about sex with people, you would be talking about another person... and I just find it disrespectful to talk about other people. I don't know or can't ever assume what anyone else would want anyone else to know and something about anyone else is no one else's business...therefore ... not much to talk about.

 

Perhaps there is a little bit of voyeurism in all of us. The purpose it may serve is to be able to justify what we do or to discredit what others do. We tend to be a rather judgmental lot (society) as a whole and what better way to draw a line and feel justified in doing so.

 

I like you more and more with every post.

 

Aww thank you WCW! :love:

 

Hippy dippy trippy flippy pippy.

 

All the best philosophers of an existentialist, nihilistic bent warned against hedonism. To me hedonism is mindlessness and is ultimately destructive. I could give fuck all about what people do in their private lives, and my critique of modern society's overtly sexual nature hardly makes me "conservative," but what I am talking about has more to do with how people are manipulated and don't even see it. Sex, in particular promiscuous sex, is being used to control the masses. That is a fact.

 

That's pretty well put OP

 

All the best existentialist and nihilist philosophers were also nuts though Pressed_rat.

I mean a lot of things are being used to control the masses. When it comes to sex, why not just think about the individuals and the individual experiences? Fuck society. It can do what it wants.

 

prove it, with supporting documentation please.:mickey:

 

In the words of Frank Zappa, "It's not sex, it's titillation." Actual sex is quite another thing. I couldn't care less about "society" anyway, whatever that means.