In the interest of full disclosure, this is more a journal entry than a blog or treatise.
Instead of working to build intimacy, legitimacy, and an environment of mutual emotional support and respect into our passionate dating sex lives, perhaps we should focus on injecting passion into our married sex lives, which are already built upon intimacy, legitimacy and an environment of mutual emotional support and respect. After all, which is easier?
Attempting to do the first requires numerous outside influences and has numerous unintended consequences: we need condoms, diaphragms, dental dams, contraceptives, antibiotics, and in bad cases a lifetime of pharmaceuticals to treat an incurable disease whether it be Herpes, warts, or HIV.. Suddenly we have to contend with issues such as abortion, adoption, single parenting (leading to instability, welfare, crime, etc), and hold debates over sex education (indoctrination?). How much time, treasure and political energy is spent on these means we create in order to support our sexual dalliances? To think a little personal responsibility would help us avoid all the
demonizing, all the fighting, all the name calling that comes with all
these issues.
All the while, attempting to do the latter just requires one thing: loving effort.
How long can we as a nation expect to fight common sense and the consequences of our actions at the same time?
