sierramcconnell wrote:Perhaps I just look at it differently, (ie not a panting, raging, hormone) because of the following:
1) I'm a virgin, I can do without. I don't need it to live.
2) I know people who've been abused. Let's please to not be glorifying the act.
3) I know people who've been raped. Let's really please to not be glorifying the act.
So sex. It is a terrible, bad, horrible thing that does not need to be glorified. It is useless filler for the sake of shock value and "thinking" it's going to get a rise out of our readers, when really, unless you've been there, no, you've not been there.
I'll go with the virgin thing because I was one until I got married. I severely scared my husband because I had all these high falutin' ideas about how sex was overrated, I didn't need it, etc. Let's just say that three years down the road, I totally understand its importance. However, I think our society has bankrupted the concept of sex. They've turned into something that is physical and not emotional. It is very emotional. You're connected to that person no matter what. In fact, whenever I've gone through a rough patch with the hubby, I ask myself what are you going to do? I honestly can't see myself being with someone else in that way. Which was probably the reason I waited to begin with. Well that and I used to a germ-a-phobe.