You may think that, but I think that clothes enable the disgust. What is hidden becomes emotionally charged. If you go to life drawing class, you will...
Indeed I have already cited evidence from the Naturist movement that breaking the nudity taboo does desexualise nakedness and does not in the least le...
Is there something wrong with it? I can make no sense of your second question. you brought up the question of public sex, and I have no idea why. My c...
But who argued for a change? Where is the argument to reduce to absurdity? That is apart from the conflation of nudity and sex, of course which is exa...
I have not said anything about justification; I have said it has a function in patriarchal society. I have not made any suggestion about what changes ...
Thought produces that conflict whenever it turns inward. So the tradition of meditation is to be aware of the flow of thought without further comment ...
And yet one in four women has been sexually assaulted or raped in the UK. That's a great deal of insanity, wouldn't you say? And that's even more insa...
Yes indeed. I have community standards, you have quaint customs, they have primitive taboos. Fer fuck's sake! Has no one on this site read any sociolo...
Criminals have a function in society. The criminal is created by the law, and the legal system is created by the criminal. There is a thief, because t...
It is not the case that rape is condoned, any more than it is the case that robbery is condoned by purveyors of security alarm systems. Nevertheless r...
Sure. How does patriarchal society control the sexual behaviour of women? It takes some fairly strong measures, because sexual activity is a natural a...
Having said that, there are big, beautiful bright red glistening strawberries that sell well, and then there are the pale, smallish sometimes mis-shap...
That is true also, but irrelevant to the effect of the taboo. On the contrary, the effect of a norm of nakedness would be to make overcrowding unaccep...
Thus far I agree, but in general, the way we 'put clothes on' the body or rather socialise a dress code with legal sanctions, does as a matter of fact...
Well it looked unstoppable from my armchair. But then it stopped. I think I'll shut up now for a bit and see what happens next. Yeah, and people whose...
Well kudos for that! It did all look theatrical at times for sure, but shooting your own helicopters down is a bit extravagant unless Prigozhin sudden...
Fair enough, you're a lot closer to them than I. Our Russia predictions differ, but we agree that one or the other will have to go and fairly quick-sm...
I'd say you're comparing kids playing cowboys and Indians with a proper re-enactment of the October revolution. ——————————————————————————————— My gue...
The reason i find it bizarre is because it is quite clear to me that nakedness becomes sexualised by being made taboo, not the other way round. As any...
I don't see what troops would have attacked Rostov, and I even less see how such an attack would have stopped the tanks rolling into red square and of...
I think you are wrong. Take the act of firing a gun. Right or wrong? Obviously you need some circumstances, ok: the act of pointing a gun at a person ...
Happy to adopt that as the theme tune of the thread. Says it all without the confusion of so much words. And no one sings me lullabies, and no one mak...
That is your narrative, and this is mine, and they both derive from a shared language and culture and are personalised, edited, and brought into contr...
I confess to being totally baffled. An unstoppable coup that suddenly stops, a civil war averted without hardly a shot fired - it looks like an elabor...
You misunderstand. I say "I" and you offer me respite, but it is mere distraction. I have spent many days crafting this thread and the previous one th...
I'm not certain; I am inconsistent and my account of myself changes. But that is the account of myself, which is entirely self-consistent. At this poi...
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-24-23/index.html What security forces are these, I wonder, are they a match for ex...
Wagner troops arrive at Lipetsk, major airbase and about 4 hours by road from Moscow https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1672583840337100800?ref_src=tws...
If there is more than one narrative, one has intrusive thoughts and maybe starts hearing voices. "There's someone in my head, but it's not me." It hap...
It seems to me that there is always a mental aspect, a behavioural aspect, and a consequential aspect to moral judgements. But "The road to hell is pa...
Masculinity is entitlement - ask any incel. Men define, and women opine. Blah blah Blah. A man is the one on on top, the missionary in the missionary ...
Sounds terrifying. You're saying that the reason we have separate changing rooms is because men are frightened they might get aroused? Really? Bizarre...
It isn't. WhatI have in mind is this sort of thing: Paradoxically, your narrative gives continuity even as it suggests discontinuity, of the approxima...
You'd have to spell that out before i could assent to it. I don't know what you mean by hetero-erotic fear. I am familiar with people being called fag...
My feeling is that it is a species of homo-erotic fear. If a man dresses as a woman, a 'hetero' man might 'accidentally' be attracted to him. Best bea...
Ask a woman. Ask Science Fiction. Don't ask the dicks round here, they'll start talking about their genitals and how they can lay bricks with them. ht...
Right, I see. I think I could accommodate the story continuing after death, it is a commonplace of some Eastern traditions that the soul evolves over ...
You know this story, right? All of the organs are deciding who should be in charge: "I should be in charge," said the brain , "I run all the body's sy...
Try not to panic chaps, pregnancy rarely results from eye contact with genitalia. Being as how we are all so enlightened and scientific these days, wh...
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