Sex/nudity on TV for Children

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OK; as a thought experiment,
let 's try this: I know someone who took his girlfriend to an orgy place.
It was called "Plato's Retreat." (since closed by the IRS.)
Therein, its customers were happily humping away.
Did thay have insufficient respect for themselves n their partners ?

If your husband invited u there ?

Holy God David - I am laughing so hard right now trying to picture the man that I married inviting me someplace like Plato's retreat. Not really in the realm of possibility - although as our relationship has evolved into its present state we respect and know each other well enough to allow each other (as truly best friends and partners in parenting our children) the right to make our own decisions.

So, I don't think I'd be prohibited from going if I wanted to and I certainly wouldn't prohibit him from going if he wanted to. But neither of us is the type of person who would ever want to do that- with each other or anyone else.

Because neither of us is promiscuous or an exhibitionist- and I think that's what adherence to or an interest in a sexual philosophy that included Plato's retreat would require.
And I'm not being judgmental - I'm just recognizing that different people have different aspects to their personality that would either lend itself to being interested in and enjoying something like that or wouldn't.

I don't like watching other people have sex. And I really can't imagine liking having sex with more than one person at a time.

And just for the record - I do NOT have and never have had an open marriage- but marriage has been hard for us - we're both very independent and drift in and out of separateness emotionally - although at this point we know each other so well that that's not the sticking point it used to be- and I think we do both trust each other and like each other enought to forego all the side issues and just allow each other to be who we need to be.
We're not divorced because neither of us has been interested in pursuing that or being with anyone else.

It's become the perfect relationship for someone like me who was never enamored of the idea of marriage to begin with - not because I didn't like the idea of monogamy or exclusivity concerning sex - because in all actuality monogamy to a partner DOES go along with my personality anyway- I've never been interested in 'sleeping around'- but marriage is a difficult concept for me because to me it's always represented a distinct narrowing of possibilities for my life. A sort of constriction.

But it worked out, because the person I married feels pretty much the same. He's always been interested in pursuing the possibilities of his career. So we just work together on being great friends and taking care of our children. I like it.

Interesting 'thought experiment'!

Did u reply to my earlier correspondence, Rebecca ?
A few weeks ago ?
I was interested in some of your opinions
that were therein solicited.

okay - I have a day off so I will.

Bella Dea wrote:

Have you figured out a way to live forever?

Yes.
Its automatic.
It appears that the Law of the Conservation of Energy applies to conscious life
and that death applies only to human bodies.

Maybe compare it to the cocoon from whic a butterfly springs ?

www.IANDS.org

I have had a few out-of-body-experiences,
so its not hard to me to accept that the part of me that was out
of my human body just leaves it, when it has worn out.

I like the way that Deepak Chopra, M.D. put it (parafrasing, here):
tho people think that we are human beings with occasion spiritual experiences,
we are actually spiritual beings with occasional human experiences.

With astrophysicists n mathematicians telling us that 96% of the universe
is missing, consisting of "dark matter" or of "dark energy" of which we have no hint,
except for their gravitational effects,
I can conceive of our spirits consisting of one of them.

David

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Bella Dea wrote:

Have you figured out a way to live forever?

Yes.
Its automatic.
It appears that the Law of the Conservation of Energy applies to conscious life
and that death applies only to human bodies.

Maybe compare it to the cocoon from whic a butterfly springs ?

www.IANDS.org

I have had a few out-of-body-experiences,
so its not hard to me to accept that the part of me that was out
of my human body just leaves it, when it has worn out.

I like the way that Deepak Chopra, M.D. put it (parafrasing, here):
tho people think that we are human beings with occasion spiritual experiences,
we are actually spiritual beings with occasional human experiences.

With astrophysicists n mathematicians telling us that 96% of the universe
is missing, consisting of "dark matter" or of "dark energy" of which we have no hint,
except for their gravitational effects,
I can conceive of our spirits consisting of one of them.

David

Ok, i get that. And I totally agree that energy (which we are) cannot be destroyed, only changed.
But we, in our current form, can't live forever. And we die.


Who knows what awaits us after death?

We might float in space. We might reincarnate.

But this body, this life as we know it, must end.

Esthetically gross; not an ethical issue.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Esthetically gross; not an ethical issue.

Art should inspire us,
the gross that does not educate is thus a misuse of the medium.
Yes, ethically we could have anuses on TV,
but it would subvert the purpose of TV.

Is there any ethical reason whatsoever why sex,
or at least full frontal nudity, should not appear on TV,
completely uncensored, at any time of the day,
available even for children to see?

I can't think of any reasons. Please give details.