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Originally Posted by Lurker
Why should I curb my lust? I don't use prostitutes.
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attention grabbing device, the substance is in the posts, not the title. and a little empathy couldn't hurt either.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
that's appalling, but my lust has nothing to do with this, so it will remain uncurbed, thanks.
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yes it does. it is the lust of humanity in general that brings such circumstances upon these women. every day in the US, 137 women enter as 'sex slaves' to serve as prostitutes in bars, street corners, underground brothels, strip clubs, massage palors, even pornography! I am not accusing you or anyone of using these things, but my point in the title, aside from trying to grab attention, was to create a kind of empathy for people to understand that their same feelings of lust, which might very well be acceptable, are the very same kinds of feelings which result in this subhuman bondage, and I thought this might be a mechanism to create this kind of empathy. that is all. no judgements to the Is out there in anyway! please excuse my political application of pruddishness as well, but some things are very serious, like millions of people living in bondage, and not the kinky kind some people enjoy.
1. Metaphysics of Sexuality
Our moral evaluations of sexual activity are bound to be affected by what we view the nature of the sexual impulse, or of sexual desire, to be in human beings. In this regard there is a deep divide between those philosophers that we might call the metaphysical sexual optimists and those we might call the metaphysical sexual pessimists.
The pessimists in the philosophy of sexuality, such as St.
Augustine , Immanuel Kant, and, sometimes, Sigmund
Freud , perceive the sexual impulse and acting on it to be something nearly always, if not necessarily, unbefitting the dignity of the human person; they see the essence and the results of the drive to be incompatible with more significant and lofty goals and aspirations of human existence; they fear that the power and demands of the sexual impulse make it a danger to harmonious civilized life; and they find in sexuality a severe threat not only to our proper relations with, and our moral treatment of, other persons, but also equally a threat to our own humanity.
On the other side of the divide are the metaphysical sexual optimists (Plato, in some of his works, sometimes Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, and many contemporary philosophers) who perceive nothing especially obnoxious in the sexual impulse. They view human sexuality as just another and mostly innocuous dimension of our existence as embodied or animal-like creatures; they judge that sexuality, which in some measure has been given to us by evolution, cannot but be conducive to our well-being without detracting from our intellectual propensities; and they praise rather than fear the power of an impulse that can lift us to various high forms of happiness.
The particular sort of metaphysics of sex one believes will influence one's subsequent judgments about the value and role of sexuality in the good or virtuous life and about what sexual activities are morally wrong and which ones are morally permissible. Let's explore some of these implications."
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