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- From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
- Subject: Re: nudity & sex
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.185630.29241@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <OKES.92Dec20191801@SunLab42.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:56:30 GMT
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- From article <OKES.92Dec20191801@SunLab42.essex.ac.uk>, by okes@essex.ac.uk (Simon Oke):
- > In article <1992Dec14.223803.26257@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
- > | When I was a pre-teen, I was taught that the "necessities of life"
- > | were 1. food, 2. clothing, and 3. shelter. But if you want "life" to
- > | last more than one generation, you have to add 4. sex, otherwise
- > | when you die the species dies with you.
- > |
- > Would that be such a bad thing? From what I see when I look around, our
- > species has done more harm than good to this planet. Just think how much
- > better off all the other species would be without us.
-
- This is tangential to the nudity issue, but I think it's worth making
- a note of. I agree that it isn't always a good thing for a species to
- survive. I may have been a little loose with my wording, but when I
- said "if you want a species to survive," I didn't say you should want
- that. My point was that for a vertebrate species to survive, it must
- have sex as well as food, etc. The corollary is that if a species
- survives, it must have evolved regular ways of providing itself with
- food, protection, and also sex. Sex is a part of your life because of
- the way your species evolved.
-
- > Sex is important if you want to see the continuation of the destruction of
- > the world and the population explosion.
-
- The world? Should I believe that the world ought to be preserved with
- no humans in it at all? Far from it. I am in and of the world, I
- love being in it, and I want to preserve it, not for itself and other
- species, but for my own children and my neighbors' children.
-
- > SAVE THE WORLD! BE CELIBATE!
-
- I think the human species will go through oscillations of population
- and evolve various ways of regulating its population before it becomes
- extinct. Among these may be (warning: ObNude coming!!) the
- abandonment of clothing as a sex lure, as well as increased practice
- of non-reproductive forms of sex, including but not limited to
- homosexuality.
-
- Marty
- marty@hoqaa.att.com hoqaa!marty
- Martin B. Brilliant (Winnertech Corporation)
-