Posts by Ross Mason
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Yeah!! Tonga V France tickets in hot hand today. Could be a wet night though....
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What IS Sofie's gravatar...........?
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"You're a penguin"
"Oh no I'm not!"
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At least nobody knows who I am.
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Back to sky. Ummm.....is it my impression or have others noticed the general lack of different sports now being found on the sky sports channels. Few of the odd ball ones like the red bull air races. BUT certainly more of the cage fighting being seen on more and more of the channels, rather than on late now being in the daytime. Is this the beginning of the shift to the bottom. The lowest common denominator??? The easy way to increase profits??? And of course do we have a shit load of rugby at the moment - or what!
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I think my point was that pleasure came waaaay after the genome need to reproduce. If we have not developed our sexual pleasure via evolutionary means...then.....how? And anyway. "none of the above" talk (and I mean talk, not purr or chirp) about it quite the way we do.
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Do fish do it for pleasure? Do birds? Do monkeys? Humans certainly do. Therefore one might assume we humans enjoy it more because....well....we can think about it, reason about and most importantly talk about it. All the above can't. I think we can safely say that all the above "do it" mainly to propagate the species. We do it to propagate but have also developed the niceties of enjoying it.
Maybe the question now becomes how much, when, with who and why we should do it for more than propagation.
There is nothing like family. The more the better to protect you. So we love birthing 'our own". Once the gods were invoked somewhere in the mists of time, nasty "rules" came along. Given the 10,000 (alleged) christian religions that have peeled off in the last 2000 years or so one can assume there may be a bit of variation in these rules. Certainly in non christian religions there are rules concerning sex in the cities and surrounds. With all of them came the battles to populate the world with your religion rather than every other pagan.
So should we now take a minute and figure out a way of separating religy bits from the fleshy bits? If we do that and consider the costs and benefits of "the act" maybe we might come to a better understanding of how we should educate our young.
My anecdata suggests that those parents who insist their child should be taught sex at home rather than at school are the ones who probably discovered sex with the lights out and are petrified their child might enjoy it too early in life. How sad.
We find out about the workings of our bodies blood system, lungs and digestive system, we learn to read and write and add with our brain. All at school. A weee extension to include the bodily sex functions and the bits that go with it and the opportunities to enjoy might just be tolerably efficient in educating for life.
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insouciance
Must be time to get serious.
My children, I would start, there are a lot of bugs, viruses and fungi out there that don't do you a lot of good. In fact, some can kill you. Some of these are associated with sex. You are becoming more aware of your body. Your hormones are wiring your brain to think about all sorts of things. Within most of you it will be thinking ALL about the opposite gender. Some will begin thinking about the same gender. All the bugs, viruses and fungi cannot or will not know the difference. You have some choices here. You can sleep - or just go to bed - with yourself. Some of you will want to do more than think about the other gender and with some mutual - and very importantly, willing - assistance from them you will want to explore each other. You can do this from afar. You can do this with a fumble through the clothes or, you can get naked. Once naked, the warmth, touch and sounds of the other body will almost certainly get you, well, horny or even randy. It is nature's way.
Eventually you will want to play with each others genitals. Those bits that feel the best. You can continue poking, prodding and playing but eventually substances from both bodies that were once shrouded by the protection of skin, blood vessels and clothes could begin to mingle. At this point you have another choice. You can continue. Or, you can try and stop and think about it. Unfortunately at this point your raging hormone war will be telling your brain to narrow down your focus and forget about consequences. Again, this is nature's way. But let us assume you have decided to take a break and think about it. What are your options? Stopping is a really hard one. Cold shower does not look appealing. But, my children, I am giving you this advice so that when THAT moment comes you will be armed with information and you will have some choices - preferably - at hand. You can ask for a both sides handjob. There is no shame in that. In fact it can be fun. Or, you can haul out the condom that you both have mutually agreed to use, understand it's benefits and failings and apply a good dollop of lube and go for it.
Now back to the bugs, viruses and fungi. There are many. They generally go under the term STD. Why? Because generally, they ARE transmittted by having sex. (Picks up the voluminous bundle supplied by Family Planning). Read this. Devour it. Discover how these diseases can be prevented. Because I can assure you that prevention is almost certainly better than cure or treatment. Yes, we have antibiotics but the war is a brutal one and many bugs are becoming adept at ignoring the bullets. In some cases the cure is worse than the disease. Not that I should be scaring you. But life can be a nasty business. In Africa, the incidence of HIV is appalling. An acquaintance, a doctor who worked in Africa fighting HIV, told me that for many african men, the only thing they will put on their penis is a woman. I hope you realise you are lucky. You have soap and water to wash your hands. You have showers to cleanse your body. You have protection in the form of condoms. A wonderful invention utilising science and technology to its best purpose, that is, protection of humans and enhancing life's pleasures with a modicum of risk. Both genders can undertake to use similar devices to ensure that your risk of contracting any of these diseases is reduced significantly. There will always be a risk. A condom will break. You left putting it on too late. Oh...and did I mention pregnancy??
And finally, it is the one device that gave woman - and men don't forget - the ability to choose their family. It gave choice to their life. A truly truly wonderful gift.
I do hope you learn to appreciate it.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Moz,
Once we had that down it was just "sex in gumboots".
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Anecdata.
I feel it in my bone.