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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Nobody here has ever had sex. Eww, yucky.

The reason consequences were severe for extramarital sex is a practical issue of support, primarily financially, so as not to burden the family or community.

I say let the people fuck! Whatever weird shit they want to do as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, and we don't have to hear about it or see it. Some shit should just be private. I don't go around telling everyone who and how I want to fuck, that's crass for me and it's crass when they do it too.

[–]StillLessons[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's precisely the reason you give for severe consequences that concerns me. If I thought all-sex-all-the-time actually led to human happiness, I wouldn't have an issue with it. But it doesn't work. In my experience, the people who regularly throw themselves into sex with the nearest warm body end up feeling emptiness and meaninglessness. Worse, however, the ones who fall into this pattern while simultaneously pretending to maintain a stable family life create intense destruction in those around them. I am quite concerned that the offspring of promiscuous parents are damaged for life. The research is clear: kids growing up in stable monogamous heterosexual relationships grow up happier and more stable than those in other environments. Do we want a more happy and stable future generation or not?