How do you think society as a whole has treated sex as a topic?

Question

Do you smell hypocrisy?

Do you smell embarrassment?

Do you smell unhealthy thoughts?

What do you think?

Answer 1

sexual intercourse among humans treated as a pleasure lead to topic in society. treat this as an interesting research topic. o.k.

Answer 2

I Don't Know Bout The Rest Of The World But In This Crappy Country They Call America Right Off The Bat You're Pretty Much Taught That Sex Is A Horrible Thing And If Your Gonna Do It You Gotta Wait Til Your Married Cuz The Bible Says So. I Don't Wanna Get Off Subject Too Much But If You Lived Life To The Exact Specifications Of The Bible You Wouldn't Ever Do Anything Except Go To Work And Come Home And Stare At Your Family. But People Are Never Goona Change For Whatever Reason. I Think People Should Stop Worrying Bout What Other People Are Thinking And Doing And This World Would Be A Better Place. Still A ****-Hole But Better. Hell 50 Years Ago If You Found Out Your Daughter Had Sex You Had Her Commited........People Aren't As Sofisticated And Complex As We All Would Like To Think....We Run More On Instict Than Any Rational Reasoning.....I'm Wasting My Breath...Buy The Way I Love Sex.....Nothing Wrong With It....Normal And Natural And You Should Do It Whenever You Feel That You Are Ready....Just Don't Be Stupid And Get Pregnant With Everyone You Sleep With...One General Statement Cant Be Applied To 8 Billion People...Thats it

Answer 3

Frankly, I smell none of those things, because they don't give off any odor.

Seriously, though, it depends on the society. The Romans were quite out in the open with it. The Puritans didn't repress it, only insisted that it be engaged in by married couples. The Victorians tried to act as if it wasn't there, and that 'nice' women didn't enjoy it. Then came the Sexual Revolution of the 1960's, and now we've gone from the double standard to no standard at all.

What bothers me today is that sex permeates everything from advertising to entertainment. I'm not a prude; I'm quite happily married and very sexually active with my husband, but it bothers me that even the fashions for little girls are geared toward sexualizing them. Of course this troubles me, not because I think sex is evil or dirty, but because I feel that one of the best of God's gifts is being degraded.

Answer 4

There is a great paradox in the way sexuality is treated in North America. On the one hand, it is the great taboo. People being murdered on prime time television is not considered a problem. However, any suggestion of sexual activity is repressed in the name of not offending the children. Somehow, it is considered more healthy to show violence than sexuality (especially to children). When I was in Germany, sex wasn't a problem. Violence and racism were more closely controlled as speech. Statistics will show German society is far less violent and actually has less incidence of teenage pregnancies and STDs.
The other aspect is a pretend glorification of sexuality, as can be seen in pornography. America is, again, one of the biggest pornography markets on the planet. Americans spend more on pornography than on foreign aid. Pornography is a raw form of sexuality which objectifies all actors. The sexuality that I saw depicted in Europe was not as raw; the people depicted having sex in European movies - though it may be graphic - tended to be portrayed as people having sex, with a history, a psychology, a whole make-up of which their sexuality was a part.
So it would seem that in North America, what is really feared is not sex, so much as intimacy. The propensity for violence is simply another aspect of this tendency to treat the other as an object. There is certainly hypocrisy in seeing Americans consume so much pornography and yet trying to hide any references to sex. And it can't be healthy. It seems to me to be a historical extension of the Victorian repression / explosion paradox.

Answer 5

sex, as a topic has been treated as dirty and taboo, even though sex is perfectly natural. If not for sex, you would not have asked this question, I would not have answered it and those reading would not be reading it. I think if as a society we treated sex as normal and natural there would be a lot less sex-related crimes, a lot less hate crimes as well. We put taboo to it, make it almost secretive and that invites the hypocrisy, embarrassment and unhealthy thoughts you spoke of.

Answer 6

Society's view of sex is very unhealthy. Morals are slipping away a little more each day, and the media teaches that as long as you don't get caught, pregnant, or as long as it's done safe, there's nothing wrong with "sleeping around". I totally disagree.

Answer 7

Sexual desire is now considered as a function of a consumerist culture, its contemporary purpose being to feed private narcissism.

In this, it bears a parallel to the Victorian obsession with death, and is no less unhealthy.

There is little shame attached to sex nowadays; quite the contrary, it is very much "in your face".

Answer 8

we seem to have this silly idea that sex is important to our identity. what we prefer sexually is seen as being at the core of who we are. Whether its conservative christians who think that sex, especially homo, is indicative of a sinful nature or more "liberated" people who think that flaunting their sex is a sign that they are free, most people operate under the same assumption about sex: that it determines who you are. If you are a man and have sex with another man, you are "gay" and that becomes a core part of your identity. That gayness is expected to form a part of all things that you do. Even progressive people who say that "its ok to be gay" still believe that sexual preference forms who you are. A person who has sex with the same sex is a certain type of person. But this whole mentality doesn't have any basis in reality. To argue that you're liberated because you're sexually promiscuous, or that your preference for men composes the core of your identity is silly.

The whole view that what you prefer sexually is a sign of who you are has been responsible for so much unnecessary guilt. How many closeted homosexuals are there who are so ashamed to be gay because they see it not just as a preference, but as a sign of their very identity? We don't take any other preferences nearly so seriously. What we like in our friends, what food we like, even our politics and religion i think are taken less seriously than sex as being indicative of our identity. Unless they are extremely committed, a person's religion or politics is not expected to shine through in their daily actions. One's sexual preferences are. Even private sexual preferences (say for example, being into S&M) is seen as somehow being a sign of what that person is really like, and if it doesn't show in their daily lives, its only because they are intentionally hiding it. For any other preference that went unnoticed in daily life, people wouldn't assume that it was because the person was hiding it, they would just assume that the person didn't see it as important enough to bring up. Sex is seen as being totally different, though.

Society as whole treats sex as if it forms the core of each person's identity. What you desire sexually is seen as being a prime indicator of who you are. I think this does have its roots in Christian morality, but its held by conservative christians and secualr liberals alike today. It has caused a lot of needless shame from the conservative side, and a lot of misguided rebellion from the liberal side. But I think its really two sides of the same coin.

Answer 9

They talk about it to much and that cheapens it to a motor movement. Guys talk about oral sex so much that girls are turned off from even wanting to go out with them.
At school the girls said, "I am not going out with him anymore, let him find a boy friend"
Girls hate that why do you guys have to talk about that ALL the time. Or when you just met a girl do you have to tell her the length of you know what? I mean can't that wait?

Answer 10

Since hormones began sex has been an intregal part ,necessary part and dog gone it a damn fine enjoyable part of the human.
your philosophical bent is not very well defined.