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10 SEX
We each have a primal sexual drive that cannot be legislated
or moralized away.
Women are not property.
The biological nature of human beings is that of two sexes. Virtually
every creature on the earth is divided into male and female and
to procreate they must come together.
Even though society encourages procreation in order to perpetuate
itself,
it simultaneously attempts to control sexual relationships in order
to promote social order.
Societies pass laws to try to eliminate the potential individual
conflicts that result from sexual attraction. For instance, societies
designate certain individuals as legally married and punish those
who would interfere with that relationship. However, no law can
put an end to the primal sexual drive which very often focuses outside
the marriage.
Marriage is also a means whereby society attempts to distribute
wealth
in an orderly manner. There are many logical reasons to have sexual
laws. The majority of these laws relate to the elimination of chaos
and conflict in a society.
However, the fact remains that sexual attraction is neither logical
nor
intellectual. Sex between human beings is a highly emotionally charged
experience. Few humans come together simply to produce children.
Humans come together sexually as a result of emotional needs and
biological drives. Sex is one of the strongest human impulses.
Sex has little to do with logic. When the attraction is great enough
between humans, no potential sacrifice of status or power or the
incurring of social prejudice or criminal punishment can deter it.
In addition, a person's sexual preference generally has little to
do with his or her overall contributions to society. Creative men
and women are both celibate and promiscuous, heterosexual, bi-sexual
and homosexual.
Further, a certain percentage of society has always been homosexual
and that will never change. All the prejudice and legislation in
the world will never end it. It is a need inherent in some individuals.
Lastly, a certain percentage of society will always be polygamous.
A person
may be legally married but extramarital affairs create a polygamous
reality.
We need to stop trying to legislate the morality of sexual attraction
with the exception of adult/child relationships and rape. No adult
should be allowed to sexually influence a child or to sexually force
themselves upon another.
Sexual attraction is emotional and biological and it can never be
successfully legislated by social or religious institutions. We
need to enact liberal laws that allow people who are attracted to
each other live the life that is congruent with their emotional
needs.
When emotional needs are satisfied, an individual has a better chance
of
achieving inner peace and harmony and, consequently, society has
a better chance of achieving peace between its members.
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There is no logical basis for continuing to discriminate against
women.
Women are not property, nor are they inferior to men. Women as a
whole are generally physically weaker than men but that is not a
valid reason to subordinate women in any society. Men and women
are complements of each other and the sooner that women are allowed
to assume an equal role in society, the sooner we will have a whole
society.
When the yoke of frustration due to sexual prejudice is removed
from the backs of women and they are granted a truly equal status
in society, a great wave of inner peace among women will harmonize
the earth with the love and nurturing which is their nature and
their collective love will counter-balance the innate aggressiveness
of the masculine orientation which presently dominates the planet.
Inner peace comes in the knowing that it is all right to pursue
our sexual preferences and no one in society can, in good conscience,
judge another for satisfying his or her innate sexual needs which
are a unique, indivisible, biological and emotional part of each
and every one of us.
Inner peace comes to women when they are allowed an equal status
in
society.
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