A recent survey in a large city reported that 95% of all video tapes purchased for home consumption were Insatiable, a pornographic film starring Marilyn Chambers.
Of all sexual encounters on soap operas, only 6% occur between husband and wife.
A recent survey showed that the frequency of sexual intercourse in married couples declined 90% after three years of marriage.
In San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park, to the outrage of local middle-class residents, homosexuals cruise and upon encountering a sexual prospect, always a stranger, exchange a word or sign and disappear into the bushes. In a series of interviews, Buena Vista homosexuals admitted to sexual encounters with an average of more than 500 strangers.
Question: Do Americans, as well as other Westerners, prefer sexual variety, both heterosexual and homosexual, because
(a) The sexual revolution has occurred, which is nothing else but the overthrow of the unnatural repressions and taboos of 1900 years of Christianity and the exploration of the free and healthy practices of a sexually liberated society.
(b) Humans are biologically as promiscuous as chimpanzees. It is only the cultural constraints of society, probably imposed by the economic necessities of an agricultural society, which required a monogamous union and children as a reliable labor source.
(c) No, man is by nature monogamous, as ethnologists have demonstrated in most cultures. It is Western Society which is disintegrating, to a degree remarkably similar to the decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, when similar practices were reported.
(d) The Self since Descartes has become stranded, split off from everything else in the Cosmos, a mind which professes to understand bodies and galaxies but is by the very act of understanding marooned in the Cosmos, with which is has no connection. It therefore needs to exercise every option in order to reassure itself that it is not a ghost but is rather a self among other selves. One such option is a sexual encounter. Another is war. The pleasure of a sexual encounter derives not only from physical gratification but also from the demonstration to oneself that, despite one’s own ghostliness, one is, for the moment at least, a sexual being. Amazing! Indeed the most amazing of all the creatures of the Cosmos: a ghost with an erection! Yet not really amazing, for only if the abstracted ghost has an erection can it, like Jove spying Europa on the beach, enter the human condition.
(e) Why go further than the orthodox Judaeo-Christian belief that monogamous marriage was ordained by God for man’s happiness, that the devil goes around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, and that consequence modern has lost his way, has not the faintest notion who he is or what he is doing, and nothing short of catastrophe will bring him to his senses. At the height of a hurricane, husbands come to themselves and can even embrace their wives. During hurricane Camille, one Biloxi couple, taking refuge in a tree house, reported that, during the passage of the eye, they had intercourse for the first time in three years.
(f) None of the above. It has always been so. That is to say, the sexual behavior of humans has not changed. Therefore, there is nothing to explain.
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These are designed to promote thought and conversation so whatever you think would be much obliged….
