December 29, 2010
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Sex sex sex
OK, I know I don’t really post here any more. I’d like to say it’s not “you,” it’s me… but Xanga… it really is you. What the heck is with all the sex sites lately? I mean, maintain some standards! Is the rating system now moot? If my new bot “subscribers” had bothered to go through my archives, they would have seen that I identify as an asexual, therefore “friending” me and subbing to me serves no other purpose than to tick me off and write a post like this one.
Now I don’t have anything against sex. In fact, I think prostitution should be legalized for health and social reasons, but you know… if I do a complete about face and decide I’m not asexual any more, I’ll look for you, sex-bloggers. You don’t have to come looking for me!
This is probably one of my biggest beefs with modern society. Sex serves a purpose, which is procreation. In ancient times, it was considered a holy act. There were temple prostitutes. Sex had a function and while lots of folk probably engaged in it, and still do, for recreational purposes, I find our hyper-sexed society just this side of depressing. Everything is sex. If you read some sociologists/psychologist, even death is about sex (thank you David Carradine for driving that one home). What absolutely irritates the hell out of me is the denigration of sex to base commercialism. There’s just something even more sleazy than normal about taking a perfectly natural animal activity and making it about money.
And speaking of animals, how is it a species that is supposedly so much better than our animal cousins is so mentally bound by something as mindless as sex? Christians are so fond of claiming that we are better than animals, masters of nature, defined by our intellect not our base animal instincts… how is it that so many Christians are hypocrites… clergy molesting children, Christians with porn addictions, Republican Rightwing fearmongers who are outed as gay? We’ve allowed sex to become equivalent to money and therefore power which makes it a “thing” to be manipulated, not a holy experience or means to regeneration.
This devolution of sex into something which can be bought and sold (yes I know I support prostitution, but that’s because people will do it anyway. Might as well regulate it to prevent sickness and abuse), is an abomination so far as I’m concerned. Porn is such an issue because of our double standard of selling sex while at the same time saying “it’s bad.” Consenting adults should have a choice and be able to seek out what “gets them off” within reason (without harming anyone or thing), but in the same breath, I am sick and tired of having sex shoved in my face. Grow up humanity. I don’t need to see your kinks. If I feel like getting a few of my own, I’ll look into it myself. You don’t need to spam my email with offers, bot me to death on my blog, or sling sex at me as a means of selling your merchandise on tv. Like as not, any sexual overtones will only serve to turn me off of whatever you’re trying to sell, so get back to me when you evolve a bit.
We can talk about stuff.
Comments (12)
Most of those people just want attention, me thinks!
I must be in a little whole. I rarely see anything about sex on xanga although i hear it’s everywhere. I just don’t browse randomly as I use to. And I think I have my settings on signed in people only I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.
@TheCheshireGrins - Well, you know what they say… there’s good attention and bad attention.
@NightlyDreams - That’s my point. I don’t go looking for it. Half the time when I come to update the links to my webserial, there’s a friend invite waiting for me and new subber. Of course, when I check out their site, it’s all sex. Bleh.
@harmony0stars - IT’s probably the attention seekers. i do occationally get friend requests but i ignore all unless they’ve made a few comments on my own site.
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@heidenkind - Shouldn’t that be 8675309?
It seems sex is the easiest topic to talk about for some people. Bots are bots. lol. I guess people need some creativity.
I didn’t know you identified as asexual. I used to but I think I was just a “late bloomer”.
I don’t have a problem with reading about sex, but if there is too much of one thing then it gets boring. That’s my main complaint.
@WondersCafe - You can say that again.
@anaraug - I suppose as a writer, I am just hyper-sensitive to the issue of sex… since supposedly “sex sells” in books, and I think half the books in the horror section should be reclassified as erotica.
What I really hate: when a car, or a news item, or a shampoo, or something, is called “sexy”. It’s a new buzzword that’s really high on the irritation scale for me. It’s all about being superficial in the worst way.
I just discovered your blog. You make some very good points about sex. I think it’s very overrated.
@Fiona - I couldn’t agree more. To me, none of those things are in the least bit sexy. I don’t know how an inanimate object possibly can be sexy…. and if someone told me that they found them so, I’d suggest psychiatric services.
@gottobereal64 - I just don’t understand the big deal, and for that, I am told there’s something wrong with me. Oh well.