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Originally Posted by fifthfiend

Okay so here's something I'll just throw out there about fundamentalist religious beliefs regarding sex (which are really just fundamentalist beliefs regarding sex, since the particular religion involved typically has fuck-all to do with the beliefs being espoused), which is: They are fucking retarded and insane.

I mean yeah maybe it made sense to have a bunch of restrictive rules about sex, like, three thousand years ago when there were countless life-threatening harms that went along with sexual activity, it's just that at this point it seems most major religions are mainly dedicated to preserving all the life-threatening harms that go along with sex, so they have an excuse to go on having the restrictive rules. Ostensibly because the Invisible Sky-Man wants it that way, but mainly because they're just terminally pissed off at the idea that somebody might have an orgasm without feeling guilty about it.

Harmful things just 3000 years ago? Okay lets look at this one for a second... lets imagine a world where every marries one and stays with that one person, so everybody is faithful to their partner. That means every single person has sex with only one other person.

Does the world get better or worse? No STDs, no unwanted teen pregnancies (also no unjustified abortions), no divorce, no broken hearts...

The flaw in the Christian view of sex is in the world itself, not in the Christian view. I'm a virgin, and I've been going out with the same girl now for three years. If I get married to her and we have a happy life and only give ourselves to each other, I don't see how we've harmed ourselves. But we sure as all hell kept ourselves from a lot of harm.

I mean seriously fifth, you can't say that fidelity and monogamy doesn't have some clear benefits. In fact, I don't think there are any clear negatives.