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Why is there so much talk about "sex" around here? What is this "sex" thing that we are saving for marriage? And what is this marriage thing?
The whole conversation is based in hetero norms and assumptions. Dictionary.com mainly defines "sex" the way we talk about "gender." It also links to Coitus, which it defines as hetero intercourse - a penis penetrating a vagina. According to all that, I don't have any gay friends who have ever had sex (coitus) in their lives (though most have had sex (gender) since birth or soon after).
So much for promiscuity. By hetero norms, Gay and Lesbian people are generally celibate, and it all gets confusing when you start talking Trans-gendered.
And don't say "you know what we mean" because I don't. Where's the line? What's the definition? Holding hands? Kissing? Petting? Nudity? Orgasm? Genital to genital contact? It's not only a continuum without clear delineations, it doesn't all even line up. Which is worse, clothed orgasm or nudity without touching? What about orgasm without touching? Where is oral or anal sex in the mix? What makes them more "sex" than, say, petting? There is no answer. Coitus is a hetero concept, and a false delimiter.
Language is important.
And then you have marriage. You can claim that it's only for heteros because God said so, but it's a tenuous claim and along the lines of claiming slavery was instituted by God. Or you can claim psychological/relational reasons for marriage, only what you mean is long term committed relationships with church, state and community support. Because that's what marriage is. "The social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc."
Oops, the definition is hetero again.
Gay marriage doesn't exist because we said it doesn't. But the psychological part has nothing to do with that. Long term committed homosexual relationships with church and state and community support CAN happen, and do some places, with as much success as hetero ones. Without that opportunity, there's not a fighting chance. I'd certainly give up on the church's definition of sexual morality if it clearly excluded me from loving who I love. Sex nothing, I'm just talking romance. Then I would end up in a series of short, secretive relationships doomed to fail because of the pressure. Then we could all call me "promiscuous."
There's another failure of a term. Promiscuous is someone who's getting more than I am. Promiscuous is someone who might be more picky about life-long partners than I am. Where's the line?
The entire conversation and the language involved is skewed to keep the terms straight. Now that's broken.
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Great post Eric.
I've always chuckled at the term "traditional" marriage. If you go back just a few centuries in western culture, that meant a man acquiring property in his wife, who had no legal rights of her own.
Or, we could go all the way back to biblical (OT) marriage, where a man had many wives if he was wealthy enough. That was certainly a traditionl marriage.
The point about "promiscuity" is well-taken too. You have to wonder how many hetero couples would make a habit of leaving their spouses if they were not allowed by law to make legal commitments to each other. Every couple goes through rough stretches, and if society at large always expected them to fail, they probably would more often.
[…] I can anticipate one criticism of this line of thinking (thought I'm sure it's not the only one). I have basically taken up a sixteenth century (and earlier) view of sex, the kind of view of sex our Anabaptist antecedents had (to use an adjective of Buffalo Sabres announcer - " Sex is SCARY bad!"). This view of sex may be seen as irrelevant; however, there is plenty of scriptual backing for it, which I would be happy to discuss. I am suggesting a more radical monasticism on the part of Chrisitans, which has had its failings. However, I want to make it clear that I don't think you are burning in hellfire if you have sex. I'm more concerned with the place of sexual desire and sexual expression within one's spiritual journey. Sexual desire is not spiritual desire, the latter being longing for connection with God, while the former is longing for connection with the human. Sex (and I don't limit this to Coitus…thanks for that post Eric)is according to the Flesh, spirit is according to God. […]
Eric, thanks for brining attention to some assumptions on the definitions of "sex" and "marriage" that are derived primarily from a heterosexual perspective. There is another word I think we need to be careful about throwing around, "bigotry."
Sometimes I'm hesitant to comment on a post that I don't completely agreement with, because to admit that makes me afraid I might get put into the "bigot" category (and if I am, please call me on that). Unfortunately there are bigots in the church whose attitudes are extremely hateful towards people of a different sexual orientation, sexual habit, or different world different view in general. Can we have personal standards for ourselves, and how does that affect our interaction with someone "outside" those "standards"?
First I'd like to make a clear distinction between standards that I hold for myself, and standards I feel the need to impose on others.
On SEX, however anybody else defines it, I personally see value in avoiding excessive physical contact (I think you personally need to decide where those lines are) until I am ready to make a long term commitment to my partner. It's a struggle, and fortunately I have a community of supporters who help hold me to that standard.
On MARRIAGE, the simplest definition for myself, is that long term commitment.
On both of SEX and MARRIAGE, I don't feel the need to impose my ideals on my European friend, where it's culturally acceptable to live with someone as a trial for marriage, or impose them on a reader of this post who understand things differently. I think it's unfortunate that the people making the loudest noises in the Christian have this attitude that they need to impose their "Christian values" on others.
Speaking of Christian values, this whole conversation about standards gets MUCH more complex when you enter community models (church being one of them) because communities set standards for themselves as well. If you are a committed member of a community, you are expected to live by that community standard, and both receive and give accountability to those standards. For example on a very personal level, I have an accountability partner, and we keep ourselves accountable to sexual purity as we define it (which includes standards we have set with pornography and physical relationships with our girlfriends).
The crux of the whole problem is that, whether we like it or not, these personal and communal standards DO affect the way we perceive others and relate to them.
The crux of the whole problem is that, whether we like it or not, these personal and communal standards DO affect the way we perceive others and relate to them. There is a tendency to look down them, and the extreme form of this is bigotry. I think these community standards need to be constantly reevaluated, because they can become outdating, not practical, damaging, and wrong.
But on the other hand I'm trying to make the argument that personal and communal standards are GOOD things if they are rooted in improving self and our relationships with the Almighty and those around us even if they have different standard than we do.
So I want to be careful not to blast a community or individuals for its standards on sexuality or other well intentioned standards. Instead we should focus on how those standards prevent positive relationships with those who we don't agree with.
The homosexuality marriage question is tricky issue. Many church communities have made it a standard to oppose it within their community. It's hard to suggest that this may be a valid group standard and not get thrown in the same category as the bigots who have mercilessly and hatefully blasted the homosexual community… On a society level and Christian level, I don't necessary feel the need to impose the heterosexual marriage only everybody else as many Christians groups have done. What I'm hearing from several YAR bloggers is that we may need to look at this marriage standard in our communities again. I think it is necessary for our church communities to examine standards that that have been damaging and evaluate is it the standard or the way we impose it on others that is wrong?
I've talked about personal and community standards, but what does YAR think about Christian standards? Obviously we have a bad track record when we set standards for the whole Christian community. But are there nonnegotiable standards that we expect to keep the whole Christian community accountable to?
The New York Times recently ran this excellent overview of recent research on sexuality, romantic love and gender:
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Denver, I think it is more dangerous to avoid the term "bigot" than to use it. Bigotry is rampant and often subtle or candy-coated. Lots of very nice people are bigoted. I'm bigoted, and I hope people call me out on it honestly when I am.
Who you feel like touching before or after marriage is not the point. Bigoted language places some people above other people, sets certain groups as the "norm" and others as "deviants." That's a problem that needs to be addressed for what it is, whenever it comes up. Especially in polite company and when it is unintentional or assumed.
In other news: I was reading up on some more good-ol' feminism today and found some great posts about sex that seemed related to this thread. From Rad Geek, in debunking the myths around Andrea Dworkin and sex:
(1) that patriarchal culture makes heterosexual intercourse the paradigm activity for all sexuality; other forms of sexuality are typically treated as "not real sex" or as mere precursors to intercourse and always discussed in terms that analogize them to it; (2) that heterosexual intercourse is typically depicted in ways that are systematically male-centric and which portray the activity as iniated by and for the man (as "penetration" of the woman by the man, rather than "engulfing" of the man by the woman, or as the man and woman "joining" together—the last is represented in the term "copulation" but that's rarely used in ordinary speech about human men and women); etc.
And the whole post that started my research is from Finally, a Feminist 101 Blog - called FAQ: But men and women are born different! Isn't that obvious? Read it. It's very good.
Eric, in my conversations with Christians and others who hold to similar sexual morals, the majority do view heterosexual penile-vaginal intercourse as the "best sex." They also tend to view homosexuality as a sin. Among those who see hetero- and homosexuality as equally acceptable, I don't hear the same over-emphasis on penile-vaginal intercourse. I guess I don't see much point in talking about the ways people talk about different sex acts until we've addressed the sin/non-sin issue. But maybe the people with whom you interact are to that point, while most in my life aren't.
Maybe we should address the sin/non-sin issue. I suppose I'm game for that. I generally write about what I'm interested in more than what the broader church community might be interested in.
But I don't think the Rad Geek is talking just about heterosexual vs homosexual sex acts - but that even within heterosexuality we ignore all aspects of sex apart from the "engulfing" which is seen as the one and only "true sex."
(This could be seen, of course, as WHY we have such a hard time accepting homosexuality - and therefor key to any conversation about sin. Thinking of splinters and logs - maybe we should do some talking about sex BEFORE we go talking about any issues of sin. Or maybe I'm crazy.)
The second part of the quote isn't about sex acts at all - it's about language. And I think it's an important point about the language of sex being male-dominant in our culture.
You don't have to come down one way or the other on any sin issue to talk about either one of those topics, do you?
Or is sex talk of any sort too far out there for this blog? Am I way off base?
[update: a link to consider more of the issues revolving purely around the ways we think about hetero sexual acts. We can say this is only for married people. It's still an issue.]
From the world of nature, we now have the 2-foot duck penis:
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Apparently the females have been evolving longer and longer complicated oviducts so they can be choosy about which sperm they keep and which they discard from various copulations (chosen and forced), so males have been forced to evolve these longer and longer penises.
If you want to start breaking down one-dimensional views of what sex is, just take a five-minute look at nature. It makes all the diversity of human sexual experience seem rather - tame? Somewhat safe and familiar, at least. (Or maybe makes you start wondering whether there's more diversity to human sexuality than we know.)
Eric, I'm game for sex talk. I can't speak for anyone else here, of course. It doesn't bother me to use anatomically-correct terms, but I will admit to smiling when others squirm.
I agree it doesn't have to matter where a person falls on the sin/non-sin issue to talk about the language behind the various sex acts. I remember when I asked a Christian woman in my life why she never mentioned oral or anal sex, though she did caution me about penile-vaginal (she didn't use such frank language, of course.) She shifted uncomfortably and said she thought oral and anal were "too far out there" and that it wouldn't be an issue. I told her the world has changed. While perhaps once heterosexuals only engaged in penile-vaginal, it is increasingly common for even Christian heterosexual married couples to happily do oral and anal. Her response was to ask if I had ever been abused or molested. No, I responded. Certainly I appreciate her concern, but a willingness to discuss "nontraditional" sex acts in the abstract hardly indicates abuse or molestation.
I recall a professor in college saying it was perfectly acceptable for Christian hetero married couples to do oral and anal—as long as it didn't permanently replace penile-vaginal. I think, though I'm not sure, that he also held to the theology that sexual union in marriage must allow the possibility of childbearing. Even if a couple is using (non-abortifacent) birth control diligently.
The question that arises then is, "What is the purpose of sex?" Is it to join two people in a way that emotional and spiritual intimacy alone cannot? Is it just to provide pleasure? If childbearing is indeed a purpose of sex, must it be the purpose (or at least a possible byproduct of) all sex? I've been told that's the offical Catholic theology. It would certainly preclude gay and lesbian sexual unions, which are by definition sterile.
While at one time it's possible people needed to be reminded to procreate so the human race wouldn't die out, we have no lack of people procreating now. Humans aren't about to die out if the small percentage of the population that is homosexual is culturally permitted to have sex.
Still, I can't seem to satisfactorily answer the question of the purpose of sex. It seems to have several purposes that are not always in effect.
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As far as Obama is concerned, no matter what the people want through laws written by their duly elected state officials, no background checks will be allowed.
So, what does this have to do with background checks for gun purchases?
Simply this: it is hypocritical for Obama and his extremist, left-wing comrades to claim that background checks on potential employees assumes a criminal past of these potential employees and should not, therefore, be allowed yet support background checks for potential gun buyers based on the same, exact principle.
If background checks violate a person's civil liberties in order to gain employment, then background checks also violate a person's civil liberties in order to enjoy their Constitutional rights.
After all, the right to a job is not in the Constitution, but the right to a firearm is.
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That proved to be an inflated number, and the ultra-rugged climes didn't make for many pleasurable days. So they plunked down close to $100,000 for a brand-new Tytal 8,400-gal./200-barrel 407-code-compliant crude tanker to get in on Lessley's operation (though Lessley does own some tanks). "We run from Corpus Christi to the ranch" in the Eagle Ford Shale area, he says, referring to a well situated equidistant between Laredo and San Antonio on the old "King Ranch."
On a really good day, says Kathrein, "we can get in three loads in 24 hours. That's a huge payday – we can make up to $4,000 a day doing that, but we typically make about $2,500 to $2,600 a day seven days a week."
They're paid an 80/20 split with the carrier, and the rate is computed per-barrel. "And the further the haul, the higher the barrel rate," Kathrein says. For example, 190 barrels hauled 200 miles might be priced $6 a barrel, a 30-mile run at $3 a barrel. "This is where the money's at as far as I can tell," he adds. "We're making twice what we were making" hauling expedited.
Oil field hours exemption stirs controversies
A May 15 New York Times story suggested many on-highway deaths could be blamed on the oil field exemption to hours of service regulations, based on analysis of truck-related fatalities. The exemption permits a 24-hour restart provision for drivers dedicated to oil field operations.
Further, it allows an extension of the 14-hour on-duty clock during on-site waiting, available to drivers of vehicles "that are specially constructed to service oil wells." There is some debate about how strictly to interpret that last qualification. Brian Remus, a safety manager with WHW Trucking of Billings, Mont., says Montana DOT told him his dry bulk haulers — including belly dump, side dump and pneumatic trailers — cannot take the exemption due to the equipment's versatility potential, even though dedicated to servicing wells.
Yet in Pennsylvania, says owner-operator Steve Bixler, hauling sand in a pneumatic tank, he's had no problems extending his clock as recently as February, when inspected by a DOT officer. On the other hand, other Reed Trucking-leased owner-operators have been told by inspectors that they're not eligible. "Like a lot of things with DOT," Bixler says, "it depends on the officer who checks you. How they personally see it is how they're going to write it."
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association told Bixler that its reading of the regs is that his dedicated equipment is eligible for the special hours provisions, even though it holds the versatility to be used elsewhere.
Some oil services haulers are able to take advantage of many states' more permissive intrastate hours regs, given the local nature of the work. Owner-operators Mark Kathrein and Wendy Wing, hauling intrastate in Texas, can "drive 12, work 15, take an 8-hour sleeper period and a 24-hour restart," Kathrein says. If they cross state lines, however, they're back on the regular federal hours rules, with the restart exception.
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Hydraulic fracturing is a materials- and waste-heavy process, one reason truck demand and rates have been so high for those working the wells with dry and liquid bulk tanks. Some dry van haulers as well as flatbedders have taken advantage of similar opportunities. Landstar-leased Tim Philmon, for instance, hauled the pump pictured below on his flatbed out of a Montana oil field in May, after carrying in fracking fluid packaged in totes.
Empty totes have to be carried back out, too, notes Brenda Hoover of MicBee Transportation, a Landstar agent based in Cogan Station, Penn. At sites around the nation, Hoover notes, "I arrange about a load a week of them, at better than average van lane rates."
Backhauls don't always work out so well for Philmon when bringing totes in. He had to deadhead all the way to Kansas to get a decent load the last time he went into the fields.
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Living in the era of Social Media it's natural most companies, professionals, bloggers and internet marketers have a Facebook Fan Page.
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Using ads has a drawback… Although you can get fans for as little as 5 cents it will cost you money. Depending on your budget and business size it may not make sense to spend 5,000 USD$ to get 10,000 fans…
(Next week I'll write about how to create a successful Facebook Advertising campaign)
I usually use Facebook Advertising to get the first 1,000 to 2,000 fans and that's it! After that I have to create engagement in the fans so that the content goes viral and with that get a stream of new fans… But how do you do that?
Before tell you how to do it, you must understand the concept of Engagement. A higher engagement means that a higher percentage of fans are participating more frequently by linking, commenting or sharing the content you post on your Fan Page.
Here's an interesting article written by Mari Smith that I advise you to read: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-measure-your-facebook-engagement/
There are dozens of ways to create engagement. Here they are:
Call to Action
One of the best ways to create engagement is telling people to engage. Simply by writing "Like if you…" or "Share this if you agree…" you'll be enticing people to take action.
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Another great option is to ask questions.Usually closed questions will work better. Asking something like "Do you agree? Yes or No?" will result in more engagement. But opened questions can also result very well, especially in cases where people are really passionate about a niche. Look at how Audi does it…
One way that is not often employed is asking fans to come up with a caption for a photo. This work exceptional well if you choose a catchy photo. See how National Geographic uses this technique to get lots of fans taking action.
Approximately 65 percent of the population are visual learner. This type of learner is best at collecting information with their eyes and usually prefer graphics, illustrations and charts.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A rare, but severe and
potentially life-threatening form of morning sickness, called
hyperemesis gravidarum, may be hereditary, researchers say.
Each year about 60,000 pregnant women in the United States are
hospitalized due to hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), marked by chronic
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dehydration and psychological trauma. The condition, although
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that force women to terminate their pregnancies.
The new study of 650 women included those who had been diagnosed
with HG and a control group of women who had had at least two
pregnancies and had not had HG. Women with sisters who had HG were
17.3 times more likely to develop the condition, the investigators
Women with HG were more than five times more likely than the
control participants to have a sister who had severe morning
sickness or HG. In addition, 33 percent of women with HG had an
affected mother, compared with 8 percent of controls, according to
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Among women who had information about their grandmothers'
pregnancies, 18 percent of HG patients had a maternal grandmother
with HG and 23 percent had a paternal grandmother who had had the
condition, the study authors noted.
"Pregnant women with a family history of extreme nausea in pregnancy should be aware that they may have it too, and health care providers should take a family history of nausea in pregnancy at the first visit with an obstetrician," lead author Marlena Fejzo, an assistant professor of hematology-oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a UCLA news release. "The high familial prevalence strongly suggests a genetic component to this condition," Fejzo added.
"Because the incidence of hyperemesis gravidarum is most commonly reported to be 0.5 percent in the population, and the sisters of cases have as much as an 18-fold increased familial risk for HG compared to controls, this study provides strong evidence for a genetic component to extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy," the study authors concluded.
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- Monday, January 22, 2007
Recently the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced its new schedule of childhood vaccinations. On the list is a recommendation that girls ages 11-12 be given a new vaccine against certain strains of the Human Papilloma Virus -- strains responsible for approximately 70 percent of cervical cancer cases. Nationwide, state legislatures, including Texas', will consider requirements this year that would require girls in certain grades to receive an HPV vaccine.
Cervical cancer is second among cancers as a killer of women; HPV is spread through sexual contact and has exploded as a result of the sexual revolution. The virus can occur in monogamous relationships if one of the partners has had previous sexual contact with someone else. As with all STDs, abstinence until marriage will prevent HPV, but it must be abstinence from all sexual contact, and on the part of both spouses. A recent study showed that people who use condoms were 70 percent less likely to get HPV than those who do not, but condoms are not 100 percent effective at preventing its spread.
There are 6.2 million new cases of HPV per year. It is a worldwide problem, and the development of this vaccine will save lives. But the deaths caused by this virus are not taking place due to lack of a vaccine. They're occurring because certain assumptions about basic morality have changed over the last four decades. So, in order to protect their little girls, mothers are dragging them to the doctor for yet another shot, hoping to save them from certain decisions they might make someday about their sexuality, or from the pasts of their future sexual partners.
It's a shame, but in America, we often go after the "quick fix." It's a lot easier to give your daughter a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease that to build into her, during those "teachable moments" beginning in childhood, the knowledge that sex is for marriage. But, instead, our culture has left our daughters adrift, without an anchor.
At one time our society provided a web of protections for young ladies and supported parents who were attempting to keep their daughters from falling into sexual activity -- and the resulting unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. Now, the fashion and entertainment industries encourage teenage girls to dress and act like tramps. Parents experiencing the natural discomfort with their daughters' dress and behavior often seem to have trouble standing up to the onslaught. MTV, certain websites, hip hop and rock music speak so loudly that all some parents can manage is a timid "be careful." And parents who stand firm on these issues can no longer rely on a cultural consensus that says, at least ideally, sex is for marriage. When they find themselves objecting to the co-ed, all night party, sometimes "everyone else's parents think it's OK" turns out to be the truth.
The good news is, even amidst this sexualized culture, many teens are flourishing. Some parents, schools and churches are imparting the right messages about sex, and those messages are actually making sense to teenage girls. In fact, national data show a significant rise in virginity among high-school students. However, if your daughter does manage to leave high school with her virginity, she'll face a minefield on the secular college campus with its "hook-up" culture.
The all-girls' dorm is the exception, not the rule, on many state university campuses. Where's the haven for the college girl who wants an excuse to get away from the too-aggressive date who assumes he'll be spending the night? In fact, in some campus cultures, the date is obsolete. Writer Pia Nordlinger contends that the "Daughters of the Sexual Revolution" didn't win. The boys did. She wrote in the Independent Women's Forum's "Women's Quarterly" that in our "hook up" culture, the young college man wanting "a night of naughty romping" doesn't even have to "shell out for flowers, a pricey dinner, or a sappy chick flick. He won't even have to call her the next day."
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Twin Toddlers Drown in Swimming Pool Accident
Two-year-old twins Angelina and Veronica Andreottola drowned at their Massachusetts home over the weekend. Police say they may have fallen into the family pool after they pushed a button to open a retractable pool cover.
Police believe the twins snuck out of the house without the knowledge of their mother, Crystal, then managed to flick a switch which pulled back the pool cover before they fell into the water. The pool was partially covered by the electric-powered retractable cover when the girls were discovered, but police intend to look at surveillance footage to find out exactly how it ended up that way.
The twins' father was not home at the time of the accident. The couple also has a 9-month-old son.
"They had a pool cover; there were gates," said Police Chief Joseph Dunn. "I think every effort was made to safeguard those children. It's a tragic, tragic accident."
Our heart breaks for this family -- especially for the mother, whose grief and guilt must be immeasurable. This is a painful reminder that we can't take our eyes off our little ones even for a second.
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Bear in mind that for the previous patches they are usually on the PTR for 2+ months before they go live, so even if it went up today, we probably wouldn't see 3.3 until early Dec. My guess is that the PTR goes up in the next 2 weeks, and 3.3 lands sometime just before the holidays.
That being said, with this being the final major content patch of this expansion, there is a good chance it might be content heavy and take a lot more time to test (all of Icecrown Citadel > TOC).
Who knows though. With how many times Anub'arak has come back to life, there could be a patch 3.4 early 2010 just so you can fight him a 4th time hahahaha.