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MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:32 PM Feb 2014

Sexual union should be made illegal

We don't need it anymore; thanks to scientific advances, we can now reproduce without such animalistic thrashing.

And it causes so much trouble. Courtship is a harrowing experience, filled with buffoonery and emotions. Amazing what people will do to initiate the mating ritual: even flowers and "romantic" evenings.

One phrase I never want to hear again: vive la différence.

Nasty stuff, sex. Let's relegate it to the trash heap of history.

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Sexual union should be made illegal (Original Post) MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 OP
No. Scuba Feb 2014 #1
No more reproducing like rodents? Coyotl Feb 2014 #8
Nice bong! Scuba Feb 2014 #10
Erotic bottle jars, Moche Andean material culture: Coyotl Feb 2014 #13
Well thank you Captain Buzzkill. Scuba Feb 2014 #14
Would you like to hear a story about .....cornbread ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #65
Yes, actually, I would. Scuba Feb 2014 #68
how about looking at some ..etchings ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #69
Be still my beating heart. Scuba Feb 2014 #70
giggity giggity....giggity goo NM_Birder Feb 2014 #72
The real rat fuckers come out n/t hootinholler Feb 2014 #46
Bodies slapping together is so undignified. nt Bonobo Feb 2014 #2
Then clearly Nevernose Feb 2014 #3
Thread win. NT Dr Hobbitstein Feb 2014 #11
That's true. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #29
If you are trying to get more hearts Manny Coyotl Feb 2014 #4
More than half of all unplanned pregnancies are due to sex MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #9
Heh heh Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #62
Yes and no. H2O Man Feb 2014 #5
Ok, since when are Anti-Union posts allowed? Fla_Democrat Feb 2014 #6
Sexual congress might MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #19
Congress only has an 11% approval rating. Common Sense Party Feb 2014 #43
And we can filter the "bad" genes out of the pool this way too. eom PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #7
More faux-news style framing. redqueen Feb 2014 #12
Is this from the Rush Limbaugh playbook on sufrommich Feb 2014 #15
It's Reproduction that's the problem ... Vox Moi Feb 2014 #16
A modest proposal... but an excellent one MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #23
But then what would I use for soup? malthaussen Feb 2014 #35
Sometimes the 'anti-sexism' folks are the most sexist of all AgingAmerican Feb 2014 #17
I enjoy wallowing in the trash heap of history. Agnosticsherbet Feb 2014 #18
Have a bad Valentines Day? Lancero Feb 2014 #20
With new technology, Politicalboi Feb 2014 #21
Even better. nt MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #22
Lame Deer laying Beringia Feb 2014 #24
Nasty, filthy sexuality or celibacy. Tough choice LittleBlue Feb 2014 #25
I have cooties shenmue Feb 2014 #26
Mother says 'No'. and she's giving you Side Eye... xchrom Feb 2014 #27
Well. Looks like I'm going to become a lawbreaker. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #28
OK, let me know if you need any help with that. MannyGoldstein Feb 2014 #30
I'll be sure to send you a PM if I do. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #31
'We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.' LadyHawkAZ Feb 2014 #32
But, but you missed the best bit, denem Feb 2014 #39
Sounds like the GOP Platform n/t LondonReign2 Feb 2014 #48
Damn, ya beat me to it. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #58
...sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2014 #33
Sam Johnson agrees! malthaussen Feb 2014 #34
I do think we should create sex robots so we can remember the horror el_bryanto Feb 2014 #36
How Swiftian of you. GoneOffShore Feb 2014 #37
So last night I dreamed..... RobertEarl Feb 2014 #38
No! It was your dream, not hers. You are guilty on several counts. Vox Moi Feb 2014 #40
I knew it RobertEarl Feb 2014 #41
This message was self-deleted by its author Demo_Chris Feb 2014 #49
You are joking right? RobertEarl Feb 2014 #61
Actually, yes, I was joking. Sad that even something that ludicrous might be taken seriously. nt Demo_Chris Feb 2014 #64
ditto trees MisterP Feb 2014 #42
But but but... rrneck Feb 2014 #44
Damn it all to hell Manny hootinholler Feb 2014 #45
More business for lawyers fadedrose Feb 2014 #47
Why don't you go first? Sheldon Cooper Feb 2014 #50
I know Alaska is big, but there isn't THAT much room for everybody! snooper2 Feb 2014 #51
I loved Brave New World too, Boom Sound 416 Feb 2014 #52
Brave New World????? Lady Freedom Returns Feb 2014 #54
There was lots of sexual union in that book. JVS Feb 2014 #63
... Lady Freedom Returns Feb 2014 #53
In summary: Fuck Off. Warren Stupidity Feb 2014 #55
Or maybe, Fuck Ewwwww? 1000words Feb 2014 #57
No it should not. treestar Feb 2014 #56
Hopefully it just dies out on its own Shivering Jemmy Feb 2014 #59
Quote from a movie bpj62 Feb 2014 #60
you sure matched his meat. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #66
Wow, you are king of the strawman gollygee Feb 2014 #67
Unless this is making fun of the MRAish idea than feminism is not sex positive, it's not satire. bettyellen Feb 2014 #74
it would eventually end all wars nt arely staircase Feb 2014 #71
And those damn scabs! geardaddy Feb 2014 #73
*** Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #75
... geardaddy Feb 2014 #76
Don't hold back; tell us how you really feel Scootaloo Feb 2014 #77
A day late and a dollar short. Rex Feb 2014 #78
Interesting JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #79
Since it's apparently such a big bummer being halfway human to people, Waiting For Everyman Feb 2014 #80
 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
13. Erotic bottle jars, Moche Andean material culture:
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:49 PM
Feb 2014

The Ancient Erotic Art
Of
The Larco Museum

http://www.delange.org/Larco_Museum_Lima_Peru_Erotic/Larco_Museum_Lima_Peru_Erotic.htm

Ancient Peruvian cultures represented their daily lives in ceramics, and this gallery holds the world's largest collection of erotic ceramics.

The art displayed here clearly shows the wide variety of sexual practices in Peru, during the 2nd century AD.

The Erotic Gallery of the Larco Museum with the world’s biggest collection of art displaying this fascinating ancient sexual theme, has turned this tourist place into a must see for travelers to South America & Peru.

We can say; "We've never seen anything like this Erotic Gallery."

The Erotic Gallery features two rooms of pre-Columbian art that explicitly shows the many aspects of sexual life of the indigenous cultures that were in Peru.

The Erotic Gallery is so graphic that the museum guards don't allow visitors to enter under the age of 18. ....................

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
3. Then clearly
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:36 PM
Feb 2014

You don't have your harnesses and swings calibrated correctly. Done correctly and precisely,there is no slapping.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
9. More than half of all unplanned pregnancies are due to sex
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:45 PM
Feb 2014

I'm just trying to perform a public service here. I understand that my proposal may be shocking to some, but all great leaps forward are met by initial skepticism.

H2O Man

(73,536 posts)
5. Yes and no.
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:39 PM
Feb 2014

I think that we can all agree that sex is evil. Thus, sinful.

Hence, as long as it is restricted to married couples, exclusively for procreation, it may be okay. After all, God made such an evil thing because He loveth us so much. Missionary position, with no foreplay nor talking. (No moans and groans, either.)

Orgasms are only holy when they create sacred organisms. We read that in the Old Testicle's Book of Genocide 9: 11-12.

We do need laws, though.

Vox Moi

(546 posts)
16. It's Reproduction that's the problem ...
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:53 PM
Feb 2014

In the era of the vibrator and insemination, 'sex' is becoming hard to define, hard to control.
Let's make reproduction illegal.
First, it will reduce the number of people on welfare and lower unemployment. Wages would go up due to a scarcity of labor, taxes for education and health care will go down. Rents and property will be cheaper. Carbon emissions will be reduced.
The benefits of this policy will become apparent almost immediately and within a few decades there will be a transformation of America to a land of opportunity and plenty for everyone who is left.
When we run short of Americans, we can always import new ones, just like our founding fathers did.

 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
23. A modest proposal... but an excellent one
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 02:53 PM
Feb 2014

It would meet with Doctor Franklin's approval, to be sure!

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
17. Sometimes the 'anti-sexism' folks are the most sexist of all
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 01:02 PM
Feb 2014

Some of these people are living on a planet where they do not know, or understand, or WANT to understand, how sex and sexuality work.

They wish to impose these perplexed, dare I say hateful, views of heterosexual relationships and men on the rest of us. They become angry when we don't share their scoffing interpretation of same. It's kind of sad watching them tie themselves in knots over something so basic.

Beringia

(4,316 posts)
24. Lame Deer laying
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 02:55 PM
Feb 2014


The wind winds by with the scent of horsemint
A clang of metal hoof sending sparks
Looking around to see
An Elk dreamer
The flute song echos off the clouds
Drawing closer and closer
The does are restless and charmed





Roberto Carlos, Romantico

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
31. I'll be sure to send you a PM if I do.
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:28 PM
Feb 2014

However, going for counseling in the past only made things ... err better.

LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
32. 'We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.'
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:31 PM
Feb 2014

"The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.”

~ George Orwell, 1984

 

denem

(11,045 posts)
39. But, but you missed the best bit,
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:01 PM
Feb 2014

one more paragraph down:

Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
58. Damn, ya beat me to it.
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 04:30 PM
Feb 2014

So to speak.





Funny, I remember someone here linking to a blogger who argued in those full-faced earnest overly serious harumph blogger tones, that the totalitarian government in 1984 were the GOOD guys.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
33. ...sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:43 PM
Feb 2014
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. - Butch Hancock

malthaussen

(17,193 posts)
34. Sam Johnson agrees!
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:43 PM
Feb 2014

"The position is ridiculous, the expense damnable, and the pleasure, fleeting."

-- Mal

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)
36. I do think we should create sex robots so we can remember the horror
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:46 PM
Feb 2014

in each city we can have the museum of sex; yes people won't really want to visit a museum where anatomically correct robots have sex constantly, but it will provide our future selves remembrance of the horror.

Brant

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
38. So last night I dreamed.....
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:00 PM
Feb 2014

I was riding in a car with a woman. She was driving. Suddenly she reached over and put her hand between my legs, looked at me, smiled then asked if it was ok.

Should I have had her arrested for assault?

Vox Moi

(546 posts)
40. No! It was your dream, not hers. You are guilty on several counts.
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:13 PM
Feb 2014

One a violation of Sexcrime Ordinance #131: male fantasy projection.
It is illegal to for a male to even dream that a woman might be sexually aggressive and enjoying it. She must have been drunk, which is your fault, by the way.
A second violation: if you were not horrified and objectified that your dream girl was leading you to ruination, that is a violation as well: Sexcrime Ordinance #222: Using the uncontrollable sexual urges of women as a cover for your own salacious desires.

Men Beware: It is a lot easier to get tangled up in Sexcrime than it is to find a girlfriend.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
41. I knew it
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:26 PM
Feb 2014

I am so dirty. Just plain filth. Where can I possibly go to turn myself in so I can do penance? The words on DU just are not enough anymore. In fact, I think these women complaining about women and their bodies is what made me dream of women and their bodies. Ooops, there I go, blaming women again. See, it's just a vicious circle.

I need to be spanked. Hard. I need to be imprisoned under a strict mysterious mistress who would help me cleanse my mind of these beautiful butts. Like I say, DU just isn't doing it for me.

Maybe a big overdose of real life beautiful butts would help?!?!?!

Response to RobertEarl (Reply #38)

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
61. You are joking right?
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 03:24 AM
Feb 2014

That is a slanderous accusation you have made.

You should delete it and apologize.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
42. ditto trees
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:29 PM
Feb 2014

"At present, I allow, we must have forests, for the atmosphere. Presently we find a chemical substitute. And then, why any natural trees? I foresee nothing but the art tree all over the earth. In fact, we clean the planet."

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
47. More business for lawyers
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 03:39 PM
Feb 2014

and there's enough people in jail already......

Shouldn't marriage or deportation be the penalty?


bpj62

(999 posts)
60. Quote from a movie
Wed Feb 19, 2014, 05:05 PM
Feb 2014

Somebody must have just watched Demolition Man because that is the speech that Sandra Bullock gives to Sylvester Stallone. She tells him that reproduction is done in the lab because of various STD that occurred in the late 20th early 21st century.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
74. Unless this is making fun of the MRAish idea than feminism is not sex positive, it's not satire.
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 04:24 PM
Feb 2014

You'd have to be really damaged or a scared little kid to buy into the premise that appears to be laid out here- or be hung up on that crazy lady who shot Warhol, LOL. Time to step away from the microphone.

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
80. Since it's apparently such a big bummer being halfway human to people,
Thu Feb 20, 2014, 04:51 PM
Feb 2014

your idea is probably a good one.

I read that Valentine's Day is just crass materialism to boycott, and it's fine to shove uncalled for asses in our faces, so why not just chuck the whole thing after all? I mean if people no longer want to make the effort to relate to each other, then it's nothing but phony to hold on to only the physical aspect of it.

People are really only in love with themselves today anyway, a mirror should suffice even better than another human.

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